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Free Thinking: 2014 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2014 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay: Part 3: Is Marriage an Identity Crisis?

Is Marriage an Identity Crisis?

Part 3 Part 3: Is Marriage an Identity Crisis?

2014 Festival

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Sophie Coulombeau explores the history of women changing their surnames when marrying.

Sophie Coulombeau from Cardiff University explores the history of women changing their surnames when marrying.

Women are often urged to consider 'tradition' when deciding whether to take their husband's name, but where did that idea begin? 
Sophie Coulombeau from Cardiff University explains the origins of the custom and recalls dissidents who bucked the trend, from Georgian women who went to extraordinary lengths to compel men to take their names, to the early twentieth-century feminist movement the 'Lucy Stoners', who used the slogan, 'My name is my identity and must not be lost'.

Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead.

Producer Fiona McLean.

Free Thinking: 2014 Festival

The Free Thinking Essay

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Events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Series of events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2014

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead for the 2014 Free Thinking festival of ideas. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

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