The Laws of Social Reproduction project is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual Lecture on “Reframing the Contemporary Child Marriage Debate: Lessons from India” on March 4, 2022.
About the Organizer
The Laws of Social Reproduction project is a five-year interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral project to re-theorise the normative, empirical, regulatory and political dimensions of social reproduction in India (2018-2023). The Laws of Social Reproduction project is based at King’s College London.
About this Event
This annual lecture is part of the Laws of Social Reproduction project led by Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran, and based at King’s College London and IWWAGE Delhi. Drawing on feminist legal theory and deploying methodologies ranging from doctrinal case law analysis to ethnographies of women’s labour markets, this project problematises law’s jurisdictional boundaries over women’s reproductive labour and critiques the varied, even contradictory, legal regulation of reproductive labour.
Given the current interest, nationally and internationally, in unpaid care work, our project offers a timely intervention by proposing a holistic understanding of reproductive labour and exploring prospects for an alternate regulatory matrix to further women’s economic justice.
Topic
3rd Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction: Reframing the Contemporary Child Marriage Debate: Lessons from India
About the Speaker
Speaker: Professor Madhu Mehra, Partners for Law in Development
Madhu Mehra is a feminist lawyer, she heads research and training at Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a women’s rights nonprofit in India. Her approach to gender and social justice has been to anchor policy and activism within evidence collection and research through genuinely collaborative methods.
Her work critiques the predominant reliance on criminalization at the cost of transformatory victim-centric approaches to redress gender-based violence and child/ early marriage; whereas her advocacy for sexual justice combines accountability for sexual violence with the decriminalization of adultery, adolescent sexuality, and same-sex relations.
Within PLD, she has led four studies, involving fieldwork and case law analysis, relating to the overlapping themes of early marriage and adolescent sexuality (available here), and is the convenor of the National Coalition Advocating for Adolescent Concerns
General Details
- Date: March 4, 2022
- Time: 6:30-8:30 pm IST; 2:00-4:00 pm BST; 9:00-11:00 am EDT
Contact Information
For more information about the project, please email prabha.kotiswaran@kcl.ac.uk
Click here to register for the lecture.
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