Child Marriage in an International Frame - A Feminist Review From India

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Historical Soundings: India 1800–2000 2. Elements of the International Story and the Question of Concepts 3. Child Marriage in the New Millennium: Law, Policy and the Work of Demography 4. Reintegrating the ‘Other’: Age, Education, Work under Compulsory Marriage. Afterword. Appendix

About the author

Mary E. John is Professor at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, India. She was Director of the Centre from 2006-2012 and before that the Deputy Director of the Women’s Studies Programme at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India from 2001-2006. Recent publications include Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory and Postcolonial Histories (New edition, 2021); A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India (co-edited 1998); Women’s Studies in India: A Reader (2008) and the co-edited volume Women in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives (in press).

Summary

This book explores the complex history of child marriage as a social and feminist issue in India across different domains. It critically reviews a wide range of historical, demographic, and legal scholarship on the subject, questions existing approaches, analyses the latest data sources, and develops a new concept of compulsory marriage.

Product details

• Authors: Mary E. John, Mary E. (Centre for Women''s Development Stu John, Mary E. (Centre for Womens Development Studi John, John Mary E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367643355
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64335-5
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Sociology: family & relationships, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships, Regional Geography