2017
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0805-4
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Names and “Doing Gender”: How Forenames and Surnames Contribute to Gender Identities, Difference, and Inequalities

Abstract: Names, as proper nouns, are clearly important for the identification of individuals in everyday life. In the present article, I argue that forenames and surnames need also to be recognized as “doing” words, important in the categorization of sex at birth and in the ongoing management of gender conduct appropriate to sex category. Using evidence on personal naming practices in the United States and United Kingdom, I examine what happens at crisis points of sexed and gendered naming in the life course (for examp… Show more

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“…It is important to note that using the western naming convention to determine gender can be insensitive to culture and changing social trends, which may lead to some errors in gender determination [32]. Although we cannot quantify the extent of such errors in the current project, it is likely the greatest impact occurs for scientists from non-western countries.…”
Section: Achieving High Quality Gender-balanced Conference Programsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is important to note that using the western naming convention to determine gender can be insensitive to culture and changing social trends, which may lead to some errors in gender determination [32]. Although we cannot quantify the extent of such errors in the current project, it is likely the greatest impact occurs for scientists from non-western countries.…”
Section: Achieving High Quality Gender-balanced Conference Programsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Zwar wird in der linguistisch orientierten Onomastik seit geraumer Zeit die phonologisch-prosodische Markierung von Geschlecht in Rufnamen und deren diachroner Verlauf (Oelkers 2003, Nübling 2009a.1) analysiert, die soziale Bedeutung, die aus der engen Verknüpfung von Namen und Geschlecht erwächst, bleibt jedoch außen vor. Daher sind, abgesehen von meinen eigenen Publikationen (Schmidt-Jüngst 2015, 2018) die Arbeiten von Pilcher (2017) und Sinclair-Palm (2016, die auf den englischsprachigen Raum fokussieren, die einzigen, die sich mit den Namen bzw. Namenwechseln transgeschlechtlicher Personen befassen.…”
Section: Gegenstand Und Disziplinäre Einbettung Der Arbeitunclassified
“…Alternatively, this family may not be influenced by a need for public validation and thus select names that are not derived from the traditional name of mother . From a social constructionist perspective, the use of intentional parent names and family surnames (Patterson & Farr, ; Pilcher, ) represents one way for parents and children to engage in the process of “doing family” (Almack, ; Finch, ).…”
Section: Theoretical Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%