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Sex, law and the politics of age : child marriage in India, 1891-1937 / Ishita Pande, Queens University, Ontario.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pande, Ishita, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child marriage--India--History.
- Child marriage.
- Child marriage--Law and legislation--India--History.
- Age of consent--India--History.
- Age of consent.
- History.
- Child marriage--Law and legislation.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Provincializing childhood. The autoptic child: the Age of Consent Act (1891), law's temporality, and the epistemic contract on age
- Juridical childhood: the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929), global biopolitics, and the "digits of age"
- Queering age stratification. The sex/age system: boy-grooms, young rapists, and child protection in Hindu liberalism
- Reproductive temporality: the staging of childhood and adolescence in global/Hindu sexology
- Consent otherwise. Rethinking minority: Rangila Rasul, the "Muslim child wife," and the politics of representation
- An age of discretion: querying age and legal subjectivity in the secular Ahari'a.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781108779326
- 1108779328
- Publisher Number:
- 99985136036
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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