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This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined.

Drawing on recent literature on childhood, the chapters in this volume cover a range of fresh perspectives. These include:

What kinds of biological, legal, chronological histories age has and the fundamental ways in which these links are being recast.

How gender differences occupy a prominent place in historical constructions of identities, especially the frequent infantilisation of women, who are never seen as adults in the full sense of the term nor equally allowed to be children beyond the first years of life.

Ways in which class, caste, gender, and ethnicity shaped classrooms and op

Querying Childhood

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/26/2024
      ISBN13: 9781032783499, 978-1032783499
      ISBN10: 1032783494
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined.

      Drawing on recent literature on childhood, the chapters in this volume cover a range of fresh perspectives. These include:

      What kinds of biological, legal, chronological histories age has and the fundamental ways in which these links are being recast.

      How gender differences occupy a prominent place in historical constructions of identities, especially the frequent infantilisation of women, who are never seen as adults in the full sense of the term nor equally allowed to be children beyond the first years of life.

      Ways in which class, caste, gender, and ethnicity shaped classrooms and op

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