Child Marriage

Confronting Customs and Controversy

Jelena Cvorovic (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9798765142967 (ISBN)

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Discover the social, economic, demographic, and public health impacts that child marriage has within the cultures and countries that practice it.

Around the globe, one in five girls under age 18 are married, and this number can double in areas affected by poverty, conflict, and other humanitarian crises. Child marriage, especially when accompanied by early and frequent pregnancy, often has sharply negative effects on female health, fertility, and mortality. In a wider context, child marriage influences population dynamics, economic development, and many other aspects of the cultures in which it is practiced.

Part I of this book features a collection of essays examining the drivers and consequences of modern-day child marriage. Part II profiles 30 cultures that engage in child marriage around the globe, including in countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. These case studies allow readers to uncover the similarities and differences in patterns of child marriage across cultures and geographies, providing a more nuanced understanding of this complex and controversial subject.

Jelena Cvorovic, PhD, is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her doctoral degree is in cultural anthropology and she has published widely on storytelling, maternal and child health, and early marriages among European Roma. She is the author of Roast Chicken and Other Gypsy Stories (2010) and co-author with Dr Kathryn Coe of Storytelling around the World: Folktales, Narrative Rituals and Oral Traditions (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Preface

Part 1: The Causes and Consequences of Child Marriage
1. Child Marriage Today
2. Drivers of Child Marriage
3. Consequences of Child Marriage
4. Confronting Child Marriage

Part 2: Child Marriage in Context
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Caribbean Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Eritrea
Eritrea
Guatemala
Guinea
India
Indonesia
Laos
Mali
Mauritania
Mexico
Mozambique
Nepal
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
The Roma People
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
United States

Glossary
Index
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2026
Zusatzinfo	20 bw
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9798765142967 / 9798765142967
Zustand	Neuware