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Defining Girlhood In India A Transnational History Of Sexual Maturity Laws 1st Edition Ashwini Tambe

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Publisher: University of Illinois Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4 MB

Pages: 220

Author: Ashwini Tambe

ISBN: 9780252042720, 9780252084560, 0252042727, 025208456X, 2019025065

Language: English

Year: 2019

Edition: 1

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Defining Girlhood In India A Transnational History Of Sexual Maturity Laws 1st Edition Ashwini Tambe by Ashwini Tambe 9780252042720, 9780252084560, 0252042727, 025208456X, 2019025065 instant download after payment.

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 takes a transnational feminist approach to legal history, showing how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, Tambe argues, the well-meaning focus on child marriage has been tethered less to the interests of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, achieving population control targets, and preserving national reputation.