'Who would take whose name?' Accounts of naming practices in same-sex relationships
'Who would take whose name?' Accounts of naming practices in same-sex relationships
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DOI：
10.1002/casp.936
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Burgoyne, Carole
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作者：
Clarke, Victoria;Burns, Maree;Burgoyne, Carole
在一些国家，妇女结婚后使用丈夫的姓氏是一种根深蒂固的规范。无论异性恋夫妇是否生育或抵制这种做法，它都为决定婚姻姓氏提供了一个背景。除了异性恋规范之外，没有任何习俗支配着同性关系和家庭中的命名行为，但人们对这些背景下的改名知之甚少。本文报告了一个探索性的定性研究的方式，30名男女同性恋者在承诺的关系，使意义的名称改变和保持。只有一名参与者报告改变了她的姓氏，一些人认为改变名字是未来的可能性，但大多数人没有计划改变他们的名字。同性家庭中缺乏命名的惯例，这给一些参与者带来了一个两难的境地--谁会用谁的名字？许多参与者不想完全放弃自己的名字，因此连字符姓氏是那些考虑改名的人最受欢迎的选择。改名的原因主要集中在做/做家人。这也是一个主题，在帐户的名称保持，沿着保持连续性的个人和职业身份，避免麻烦，并发症和混乱和抵制heteronormativity。研究结果进行了讨论，在同性家庭的命名和异性恋婚姻命名的做法研究有关的其他研究。版权所有（C）2008约翰威利父子有限公司
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 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. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.