Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings [Paperback]

Introduction?I: Histories of Childhood?1.?Chronological Age and the Uneven Development of Modern Childhood in the United States?2.?Is She a Child? Emergence of Chronological Age in Early Colonial Bengal?3.?Age and Marriage: Problems of Girlhood in Colonial and Post-colonial Bengal?4.?Reflections on the History of Childhood and the State in Kerala?5.?The Travels and Appeal of the Girl Child?II: Education and Labour?6.?Gender, Education, and Child Labour: Reflections on Ontological Issues?7.?The Classroom as Sensorium in Mysore, 1840-1930?8.?Juvenile Labour in the Beedi Industry of Central India, 1960s-80s?9.?Learning to Service: Vocational Training for Marginalised Youth, Aspirations, Consumption, and Social Reproduction?III: Practices of Parenting?10.?Disciplining Girls in German Families: Gendered Childhood Experiences of Violent and Authoritarian Parenting in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s?11.?Narrating Childhood: Difficult Memories in Trans Autobiography?12.?I Lost My Son Whom I Raised for Twelve Years. Anxieties Among Parents of Trans Children?13.? Contested Equality: Co-Parenting, Child Welfare, and Gender Politics in Contemporary History

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This book explores the complex history of child marriage as a social and feminist issue in India across different domains.?It critically reviews a wide range of historical, demographic, and legal scholarship on the subject, questions existing approaches, analyses the latest data sources, and develops a new concept of compulsory marriage.?

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