In the Name of the Mother: Feminist Opposition to the Patronym in Nineteenth-Century France
Abstract The surname constitutes the most public form of personal representation and identity. A name binds a person to a history, to a familial line, in legal, social, and emotional ways. Patrilineality presupposes the absolute primacy of the male lineage, denying any value to the mother’s ancestry...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Signs. - University of Chicago Press, 1975. - 39(2014), 3, Seite 659-683 |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Signs |
| Schlagworte: | Linguistics Social sciences Philosophy Political science Arts |