Name: Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (en Inglés)
SKU: 62720917
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Author: Ashwini Tambe
ISBN: 9780252042720

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Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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University Of Illinois Press

Autor

Ashwini Tambe

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Inglés

N° páginas

218

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780252042720

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Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (en Inglés)

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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: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe's transnational feminist approach to legal history shows how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, the well-meaning focus on child marriage became tethered less to the well-being of girls themselves and more to parents' interests, population control targets, and the preservation of national reputation.