What are some of the important themes covered by each of the authors in these articles?
Please review the articles listed and attached. After reviewing the articles (there are a total of 8), write responses in answer to the questions posed. Please write the answer beneath the question. There is no title page or headers required. The total word limit should be no more than 2400 words.
PART I: Please answer the following questions using the readings below:
1. Nayahamui
2. Lamb
3. Brickell
• What are some of the important themes covered by each of the authors in these articles?
• Why is gender-based violence and violence against women an issue of human rights and a legal issue?
• Why is the rule of law seen as an essential tool for addressing gender-based violence through initiatives targeting domestic institutions and legal frameworks?
• How effective are human rights advocacy and legal reforms based on what the authors say?
PART II: Please answer the following questions using the readings below:
1. Sumi Madhok
2. Tine Davids
• What is the relationship between law, gender and development in the context of gender-based violence?
• Why does women’s agency matter in this context (gender-based violence) according to Sumi Madhok?
• Why does reorienting power relations matter in this context? Refer to Tine Davids’ article
• How does ‘gender-mainstreaming’ lead to alternative or competing possibilities for development practice? Refer to Tine Davids’ article.
• Why does addressing the topic of ‘masculinities’ matter in this context?
PART III: Please answer the following questions using the readings below:
1. Chamindra Weerawardhana
2. Lucy Ferguson
3. Chandra Mohanty
• What is the role of the gender and development practitioner in addressing gender-based violence and violence against women based on Lucy Ferguson’s article? What are some of the challenges she describes?
• What does a decolonizing approach offer to development work, according to Chamindra Weerawardhana?
What would it look like in the context of gender based violence?
• What are Chandra Mohanty’s main points and why do they matter in the context of gender and development?