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Hortense Mancini’s story—a child bride trapped by a monster—would’ve been a footnote in history books. That is, until she fought back and ran away

Hortense Mancini’s story, of a child bride trapped by a monster, would’ve been a footnote in history books. Until she fought back and ran away. Hortense spent the rest of her life running from her ...
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The child bride who challenged patriarchy and became one of India’s pioneering women doctors

No matter how privileged, a girl was willy-nilly a captive of orthodoxy. All girls – in Rukhmabai’s distressing description – were born to be “enslaved daughters.” How did that happen? Grappling with ...
The Guardian

From escaped child bride to artist: why one Ghanaian painter puts women at the centre of her work

Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women Whether self-portraits saturated in ...
MLive

Courtney Stodden narrates her own biopic, ‘I Was a Child Bride,’ premiering September 27 on Lifetime

Part of Lifetime’s “Ripped From the Headlines” series, a collection of films based on real people, “I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story” follows the life of a 16-year-old starlet whose ...
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The Child Bride | Sukati's journey from captive to courageous

JOHANNESBURG - From a child bride to a corporate powerhouse. That's the story of author, Mmathabo Sukati, in her book, The Child Bride - From Captive To Courageous. Sukati went from being forced into ...