1st Edition
Changing Names and Gendering Identity Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain
By Rachel Thwaites
Copyright 2017
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book investigates contemporary naming practices on marriage in Britain, drawing on survey data and detailed interview material in which women offer their own accounts of the reasons for which they have changed or retained their names. Exploring the ways in which names are used to create and understand family, to cement commitments and make it clear to the self and to others that subject is in... Read more
Preface
Author’s Declaration
1: Introduction: The Importance of Names to Gendered Social Organisation
2: Research Design and Methodology
3: Names and Tradition
4: Names, ‘Choice’, and Gender
5: Power, Politics, and Naming
6: Maintaining the Status Quo? Love, Heterosexuality, and Emotion Work
7: ‘Displaying’ and ‘Doing’ Family: Genetics, Social Connection, and Respectability
8: Names, (Gendered) Self, and Society
9: Accounting for Transgression
10: Conclusion
Index
Biography
Rachel Thwaites is a Lecturer in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University.
