Preface
Author's declaration
Introduction: the importance of names to gendered social organisation
Research design and methodology
Names and tradition
Names, "choice", and gender
Power, politics, and naming
Maintaining the status quo : love, heterosexuality, and emotion work
"Displaying" and "doing" family : genetics, social connection, and respectability
Names, (gendered) self, and society
Accounting for transgression
Conclusion
Index.