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Changing Names and Gendering Identity - Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain (Paperback)
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Changing Names and Gendering Identity - Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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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 'true love', Changing Names and Gendering Identity
considers the manner in which names are used to make sense of the
self and narrate life changes and choices in a coherent fashion. A
critique of the gender-blindness of sociological theories of
individualisation, this volume offers evidence of the continued
importance of traditions and the past to the functioning of
contemporary society. In dissecting the everyday, taken-for-granted
ritual of name changing for women on marriage, it sheds light on
the nature of an enduring set of unequal gender relations which are
used to organise society, behaviour and interpersonal relations.
Engaging with questions of power, heteronormativity, and gender
relations, this analysis of a significant ritual of contemporary
heterosexual marriage will interest sociologists and scholars of
gender studies with interests in the family, identity and gender
relations.
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