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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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