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Changing names and gendering identity : social organisation in contemporary Britain / Rachel Thwaites.
Van Pelt Library HQ75.6.G7 T49 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thwaites, Rachel, author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 54.
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 54
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity--Great Britain.
- Gender identity.
- Sex role--Great Britain.
- Sex role.
- Social change.
- Personality and situation.
- Great Britain.
- Personality and situation--Great Britain.
- Names, Personal--Great Britain.
- Names, Personal.
- Social change--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 154 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Author's declaration
- Introduction: the importance of names to gendered social organisation
- Research design and methodology
- Names and tradition
- Names, "choice", and gender
- Power, politics, and naming
- Maintaining the status quo : love, heterosexuality, and emotion work
- "Displaying" and "doing" family : genetics, social connection, and respectability
- Names, (gendered) self, and society
- Accounting for transgression
- Conclusion
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472477705
- 1472477707
- OCLC:
- 953440146
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