Sex, Law and the Politics of Age
Title | Sex, Law and the Politics of Age PDF eBook |
Author | Ishita Pande |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108489745 |
An innovative study of the establishment of 'age' as a political category in late colonial India.
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe
Title | Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Brundage |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 2009-02-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0226077896 |
This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. "Brundage's book is consistently learned, enormously useful, and frequently entertaining. It is the best we have on the relationships between theological norms, legal principles, and sexual practice."—Peter Iver Kaufman, Church History
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age
Title | Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age PDF eBook |
Author | Ishita Pande |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110880263X |
Ishita Pande's innovative study provides a dual biography of India's path-breaking Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and of 'age' itself as a key category of identity for upholding the rule of law, and for governing intimate life in late colonial India. Through a reading of legislative assembly debates, legal cases, government reports, propaganda literature, Hindi novels and sexological tracts, Pande tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age. By tracing the history of age in colonial India she illuminates the role of law in sculpting modern subjects, demonstrating how seemingly natural age-based exclusions and understandings of legal minority became the alibi for other political exclusions and the minoritization of entire communities in colonial India. In doing so, Pande highlights how childhood as a political category was fundamental not just to ideas of sexual norms and domestic life, but also to the conceptualisation of citizenship and India as a nation in this formative period.
The Age of Consent
Title | The Age of Consent PDF eBook |
Author | M. Waites |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2005-08-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230505937 |
The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated. The text includes: ·A unique history of age of consent laws in the UK, analysed via contemporary social theory ·A global comparative survey of age of consent laws and relevant international human rights law ·A critical analysis of how protectionist agendas shaped new age of consent laws in England and Wales in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 ·In-depth theoretical discussion of the rationale for age of consent laws ·An original proposal to reduce the age of consent to 14 for young people who are less than two years apart in age Responding to contemporary concerns about young people's sexual behaviour, sexual abuse and paedophilia, this book will engage readers in law and socio-legal studies, sociology, history, politics, social policy, youth and childhood studies, and gender and sexuality studies; and professionals and practitioners working with young people.
Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference
Title | Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Linell E. Cady |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0231162480 |
Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.
Too Young to Run?
Title | Too Young to Run? PDF eBook |
Author | John Evan Seery |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0271048530 |
"Examines the history, theory, and politics behind the age qualifications for elected federal office in the United States Constitution. Argues that the right to run for office ought to be extended to all adult-age citizens who are otherwise office-eligible"--Provided by publisher.
Jailbait
Title | Jailbait PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Cocca |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2004-04-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0791459055 |
Examines the development of statutory rape laws in the United States. The first book-length study of American statutory rape laws, Jailbait investigates the double-edged nature of legislation aimed at both protecting and punishing adolescent sexuality. Carolyn Cocca explores how, throughout the history of the United States, the regulation of sexual behavior was seized upon as a means to alleviate larger problems, be they moral, social, political, or economic. Feminists, religious conservatives, and legislators, each with their own agendas, have at times both conflicted and cooperated over legislation, leading to uneasy compromises that play out in the ways in which the laws are implemented today. Using both detailed case studies and quantitative analysis, Jailbait examines important changes made to statutory rape laws since the 1970s, including prosecutions under the laws. Among the more surprising findings is that changes to statutory rape laws were sometimes made in opposition to prevailing public opinion, contrary to previous studies that have asserted morality policy is especially responsive to public opinion.