Dear All,

 

Some group members may be interested in my new book: Changing Names and Gendering Identity: Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain: https://www.routledge.com/Changing-Names-and-Gendering-Identity-Social-Organisation-in-Contemporary/Thwaites/p/book/9781472477705

 

About the Book

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.

Many thanks, and best wishes,

Rachel

 

 

University of Lincoln

Dr. Rachel Thwaites | Lecturer in Sociology

College of Social Science
University of Lincoln. Brayford Pool, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. LN6 7TS

lincoln.ac.uk  |  ulincoln.academia.edu  |  twitter.com

 

Recently published: Thwaites, R. (online first). Making a Choice or Taking a Stand?  Choice Feminism, Political Engagement, and the Contemporary Feminist Movement. Feminist Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700116683657

 

Thwaites. R. (2017). Changing Names and Gendering Identity: Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain. London: Routledge.

 

Thwaites, R. and Pressland, A. (eds) (2017). Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences, and Challenges. London: Palgrave.

 

 


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