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Child Marriage in an International Frame : A Feminist Review from India

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 [©2021]

1 online resource (227 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Child marriage in an international frame / John, Mary E. (Druckausgabe)

978-1-000-37345-5

978-0-367-64335-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Child marriage-History-India ; Feminism ; Child marriage-History

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 1: Historical soundings: India 1800-2000 -- A few thoughts on the pre-colonial period -- The colonial period -- Beginnings in colonial Bengal -- A different framing in western India -- The Rakhmabai case -- The age of consent controversy -- The Age of Consent Act -- Age and girlhood in the wake of the Age of Consent Bill -- The "second social reform" -- The modernizing impulse: the case of the princely state of Mysore -- Child marriage in the imagined nation to be -- What is the story with independence? -- Towards Equality and the Marriage Act of 1978 -- References -- Chapter 2: Elements of the international story and the question of concepts -- Notions of marriage -- Marriage in history -- Median ages of marriage in Northwestern Europe and the Blackstone laws -- From Centuries of Childhood to the emergence of childhood studies -- Where are feminist studies of childhood? -- Two case studies for situating early and child marriage globally -- The US and the American child bride -- China, marriage and leftover women -- Adolescence: a master concept in the making? -- From invention to normalization and "putting girls first" -- Reframing girlhood -- References -- Chapter 3: Child marriage in the new millennium: Law, policy and the work of demography -- Law and the girl child -- Criminal law amendments and child marriage -- State policy -- Demography in an international frame -- Measuring early and child marriage in India -- India's data sets and their possibilities -- Population census -- National Family Health Survey -- District-Level Household Survey -- The Indian Human Development Survey -- National Sample Survey.