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Gender, Language, and Power: Surname or Sirname?

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Gender, Language, and Power: Surname or Sirname? book

ByDiana Boxer
BookLanguage in the Real World

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
Imprint Routledge
Pages 16
eBook ISBN 9780203839812

ABSTRACT

This chapter assesses the current state of affairs in women’s naming choices in the U.S. and brings to light some cross-cultural comparisons. I became interested in the subject over the years through thinking about what women around me were doing about the surname issue when faced with marriage or partnership. Even though I am married, I never thought to take my husband’s surname. I have an independent identity as an academic woman; moreover, changing my name always meant ceding to a perceived more “powerful” member of a pair. That just would not do. Naming choices, like all linguistic choices, affect one’s personal as well as professional identity; however, this is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a deeper issue of societal power underlying surnames. Indeed, there is much more involved in the surname question than merely to change one’s name or not to change.

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