Changing Names and Gendering Identity: Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367595760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Rachel Thwaites

Opis

This book investigates contemporary naming practices on marriage in Britain, drawing on survey data and detailed interview material. 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 di

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Rachel Thwaites is a Lecturer in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University.