Jaya Sagade

Child Marriage in India

Socio-Legal and Human Rights Dimensions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the persisting phenomenon of child marriage despite a legal ban. Using the methodology of feminist legal analysis the book offers a powerful critique of the state of law in India, and highlights the gap between legal normativity and social practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780198079798
• ISBN-10: 0198079796
• Artikelnr.: 54830193

Autorenporträt

Jaya Sagade is Vice Principal, ILS Law College, Pune. She did her LLM and PhD from Pune University and SJD from University of Toronto, Canada. Dr Sagade has been teaching since 1979 and joined ILS as a faculty in 1981. She has been a UGC Fellow and has also received the ICSSR fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, and Fellowship of the Netherlands Government for Human Rights course at the Hague as well as University of Toronto scholarship for SJD.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Rebecca J. Cook
* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* List of Acronyms
* List of Tables
* Introduction
* 1: Dimensions of the Problem of Child Marriage in India: Causes and
Consequences;
* 2: Legal Discourse on Age of Marriage;
* 3: Personal Laws, Legal Reforms, and the Judiciary;
* 4: Child Marriage and International Human Rights;
* 5: Human Rights Violated by the Custom of Child Marriage;
* 6: The Girl Child's Right to Development : Adverse Consequences of
Child Marriage;
* 7: Strategies and Future Action; Conclusions;
* Epilogue
* Select Bibliography
* List of Cases
* Index