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Volume 20 Issue 4, October 2020
Special Issue: Governing choice and child marriage: Young women, marriage and development aid programes
- Guest Editor: Esther Miedema
- Guest Editor: Winny Koster
- Guest Editor: Nicky Pouw
Articles
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 21, 2020pp. 261–269
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In recent years, the international community has increasingly directed its attention to reducing the prevalence of child marriage, which is defined as marriage before the age of 18. Child marriage has been shown to disproportionately affect young women in ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published January 31, 2021pp. 270–281
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This article uses qualitative data from Niger to examine adolescent girls’ perceptions of their own agency in marriage decisions and contextual factors influencing these perceptions. We find that girls make marital decisions within a context that stresses ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published January 22, 2021pp. 282–295
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The current international approach to child marriage is the complete prohibition of marriage under the age of 18. Child marriage is considered a problem internationally, and those who practice it tend to be viewed as ‘traditional’, that is, insufficiently ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 4, 2020pp. 296–311
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Ethiopia has recently seen a remarkable fall in the proportion of girls who marry in early adolescence, reflecting the country’s lauded efforts to tackle child marriage. However, aggregate national figures mask a more complex reality. This article ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published February 25, 2021pp. 312–327
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This article discusses rationales for development and humanitarian intervention through the lenses of poststructuralist policy analysis and a postcolonial politics of the womb. It aims to show a variety of perspectives on early marriage and the ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published January 31, 2021pp. 328–346
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There is a burgeoning body of research on the role of ‘shame’ and ‘honour’ in decisions regarding early marriage in different parts of the world. Conceptualizing shame and honour as idioms through which gendered socio-economic inequalities are created and ...Export citation
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