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From: peckham@cornell.UUCP (Stephen Peckham)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
Message-ID: <262@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 10:25:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 10:25:41 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Sep-85 06:30:22 EDT
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> 	Changing one's identity, presumably for life, is *NOT* a trivial
> issue. If it were, why aren't men changing *their* names upon marriage ?

Changing one's name is not changing one's identity.  Peoples' identities
may change when they get married, but that happens to men as well as to
women and has nothing to do to with names.  (It also happens when people have
children.)  There are reasons for women to keep their names when they get
married, but maintaining their identities is not one of them.

	Steve Peckham