Women's Marital Naming in Two Generations: A National Study

Johnson, David Read; Scheuble, Laurie K.

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“…In a random sample of adults from one Midwestern state, church attendance was negatively associated with tolerance for a woman keeping her maiden name at marriage [20]. In other studies, church attendance showed no relationship to marital naming choices [8,9]. Similar conflicting findings surround religious traditions.…”

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 52%

“…Even without a legal requirement, the adoption of a husband's surname remains the most common naming option for brides in America [6][7][8][9][10]. More than nine out of ten U.S. women take their husband's last name at marriage [7,8]. Nearly three-fourths of American adults agree that it is generally better if a woman changes her name when married and half believe that marital name change for women should be legally required [11].…”

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gender, ethnicity, education, and gender role ideology consistently appear as influences on marital naming choices [7,8,10,11,14,[17][18][19][20][21][22]. Only a handful of studies on marital naming considers religion, and even fewer employ more than one or two religion variables.…”

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Until overturned by a Supreme Court ruling in 1975, many states had laws that required women to adopt their husband's surnames at marriage. Even without a legal requirement, the adoption of a husband's surname remains the most common naming option for brides in America [6][7][8][9][10]. More than nine out of ten U.S. women take their husband's last name at marriage [7,8].…”

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

2014

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Despite increasingly egalitarian gender roles in the United States, when the wedding bells ring for heterosexual couples, husband and wife still commonly emerge sharing the man's last name. Largely missing from previous studies of marital name change is the influence of religion. We examine the marital naming plans of 199 students from four Evangelical colleges. Nearly all these students planned to marry and more than 80% planned to follow the traditional naming pattern for their gender. Bivariate correlations and logistic regression models reveal that private prayer and more literal views of the Bible correspond to plans for a traditional marital surname. Yet, only a small minority of students evoked religious language to justify their surname choice. Gender roles, identity, and tradition were dominant themes in their explanations. Whether recognized or not, personal religiosity and the model of marriage cultivated in religious families guide the marital naming intentions of Evangelical students. Thus, religion operates as an invisible influence shaping ideals of marriage and family within Evangelical subculture.

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Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 52%

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Marital Naming Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

2014

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“…The present findings contributed to the literature on this relationship and suggested the need for much more research in this area, with the ultimate goal of developing a sound theoretical model of how gesturing exerts an influence on speech fluency. D espite cultural shifts such as women's presence in the workforce and the normalization of gender neutral language, the popular tradition of women changing their last names to that of their husbands upon marriage remains the norm in the United States (Hamilton, Geist, & Powell, 2011;Johnson & Scheuble, 1995;Scheuble, Johnson, & Johnson, 2012). About 94% of married women use their husband's surnames (Gooding & Kreider, 2010) and only an estimated 18.5% of college graduates retained their maiden names at marriage in 2001 (Goldin & Shim, 2004).…”

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‘Who would take whose name?’ Accounts of naming practices in same‐sex relationships

Clarke

Burns

Burgoyne

2008

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The practice of a woman assuming her husband's last name upon marriage is a deeply embedded norm in some countries. Whether or not individual heterosexual couples reproduce or resist this practice, it provides a context for making decisions about marital names. No conventions, other than heteronormative ones, govern naming practices in same-sex relationships and families, but very little is known about name changing in these contexts. This paper reports an exploratory qualitative study of the ways in which 30 lesbians and gay men in committed relationships made meaning of name changing and keeping. Only one participant reported changing her last name, some considered name changing a future possibility, but most had no plans to change their name. The lack of conventions regarding naming in same-sex families created a dilemma for some participants-who would take whose name? Many participants did not want to entirely give up their name, thus a hyphenated last name was the most popular option for those contemplating a name change. Accounts of name changing centred on doing/being family. This was also a theme in accounts of name keeping, along Maree Burns is the co-ordinator of the Eating Difficulties Education Network in Auckland, New Zealand. Maree has published several articles examining the discourses and discursive practices of the 'eating disorder' bulimia. She has recently completed ESRC-funded research on money management in same-sex relationships with Carole Burgoyne and Victoria Clarke at the University of Exeter. Maree is currently co-editing two books: Critical Feminist Perspectives on Eating Dis/Orders and Critical Bodies: Representations, practices and identities of weight and body management. with maintaining a continuity of personal and professional identity, avoiding hassle, complications and confusion and resisting heteronormativity. The findings are discussed in relation to other research on naming in same-sex families and research on heterosexual marital naming practices.

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Women's Marital Naming in Two Generations: A National Study

Cited by 58 publications

References 11 publications

Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges

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‘Who would take whose name?’ Accounts of naming practices in same‐sex relationships

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