Mary E John

Child Marriage in an International Frame

A Feminist Review from India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367745851
• ISBN-10: 0367745852
• Artikelnr.: 68715541

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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