Child Marriage in an International Frame: A Feminist Review from India

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Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction References Chapter 1: Historical soundings: India 1800–2000 A few thoughts on the pre-colonial period The colonial period Beginnings in colonial Bengal A different framing in western India The Rakhmabai case The age of consent controversy The Age of Consent Act Age and girlhood in the wake of the Age of Consent Bill The “second social reform” The modernizing impulse: the case of the princely state of Mysore Child marriage in the imagined nation to be What is the story with independence? Towards Equality and the Marriage Act of 1978 References Chapter 2: Elements of the international story and the question of concepts Notions of marriage Marriage in history Median ages of marriage in Northwestern Europe and the Blackstone laws From Centuries of Childhood to the emergence of childhood studies Where are feminist studies of childhood? Two case studies for situating early and child marriage globally The US and the American child bride China, marriage and leftover women Adolescence: a master concept in the making? From invention to normalization and “putting girls first” Reframing girlhood References Chapter 3: Child marriage in the new millennium: Law, policy and the work of demography Law and the girl child Criminal law amendments and child marriage State policy Demography in an international frame Measuring early and child marriage in India India’s data sets and their possibilities Population census National Family Health Survey District-Level Household Survey The Indian Human Development Survey National Sample Survey Select statistical reports on child marriage Demographic explanations Causes of early marriage Consequences Where do we take the knowledges of demography? References Chapter 4: Reintegrating the “other”: Age, education and work under compulsory marriage Age at marriage in contemporary India Scholarship on education Labour, work and employment The case of child labour Women’s work and child marriage Adolescence and adolescent sexuality Where are the debates and differences? The notion of social norms Child marriage and the adverse child sex ratio: Two sides of the same coin? Towards a conceptualization of compulsory marriage References Afterword From theory to practice? Notes References Appendix Regression tables Author Index Subject Index