Ishita Pande

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age (eBook, PDF)

Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108802574
• Artikelnr.: 70910926

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