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From: huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Kathryn Huxtable)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Name Change Upon Marriage?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 15:48:15 GMT
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In article <1157@tahoma.UUCP>, bcstec!tahoma!kgf2173@uunet.uu.net (Kerry G. Forschler) writes:
> I'm interested in women's opinions about changing names when they
> are married.  
> ...
> How do you women feel about changing your name when you're married?
> ...
> What sort of frustrations has it caused you? 
> 
> It seems to me (a male) that changing your name shows belonging/
> /allegiance/ownership/subservience/possession/etc (you pick the
> word) to your husband.  How do you see it?
> ...
> What do you think?

I think that in today's society, the only concievable reason for a
couple to change their names when they marry is to identify the couple
as a family unit.

This can probably be done in other (less obvious) ways.  I don't like
the custom, myself.  For me, it buys into to much of the traditional
Christian(-like) heterosexual patriarchal attitudes to sit well with
me.

-- 
Kathryn Huxtable
huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu