Changing names and gendering identity : social organisation in contemporary Britain / / Rachel Thwaites

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910149384803321
• Autore: Thwaites Rachel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-317-16857-7; 1-315-57125-0; 1-317-16858-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Disciplina: 303.4
• Soggetti: Gender identity - Great Britain; Sex role - Great Britain; Personality and situation - Great Britain; Names, Personal - Great Britain; Social change - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.