Ishita Pande (Ontario Queen's University)

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age

Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781108747486
• ISBN-10: 1108747485
• Artikelnr.: 63297814

Autorenporträt

Ishita Pande is Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Queen's University, Canada. She is the author of Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

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