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Defining girlhood in India : a transnational history of sexual maturity law / Ashwini Tambe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tambe, Ashwini, author.
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--India--Social conditions.
- Teenage girls.
- Age of consent--India--History.
- Age of consent.
- Adolescence--India--History.
- Adolescence.
- Adulthood--India--History.
- Adulthood.
- Feminism--India--History.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum. Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9780252051586
- 0252051580
- OCLC:
- 1124778408
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