Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937

ISBN-13: 9781108489744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str.

Ontario) Ishita Pande (Queen's University

Opis

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examining India's Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of 'age' as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.

Recenzje

'… an important and much-needed theoretical contribution to a nascent but burgeoning field of childhood history in the Indian subcontinent.' Soni, H-Soz-Cult

Spis treści

Introduction; I. Provincializing childhood; 1. The autoptic child: The Age of Consent Act (1891), law's temporality, and the epistemic contract on age; 2. Juridical childhood: the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929), global biopolitics, and the “digits of age”; II. Queering age stratification; 3.The sex/age system: boy-grooms, young rapists, and child protection in hindu liberalism; 4. Reproductive temporality: the staging of childhood and adolescence in global/hindu sexology; iii. Consent otherwise; 5.Rethinking minority: Rangila Rasul, the “muslim child wife,” and the politics of representation; 6. An age of discretion: querying age and legal subjectivity in the secular shari'a; Epilogue