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

ISBN-13: 9780367643355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 226 str.

Mary E. John

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).