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SUMMARY:'I'm the sole provider and care taker:' gender, class and name changing in New York City, 1892-2012
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 This essay's close look at the name change petitions 
 housed in the New York City Civil Court 
 over the course of a century allows us to see 
 the ways that women and transgender people 
 throughout the 20th and 21st centuries increasingly 
 came to use name changing as a tool to 
 empower themselves, to shape their gender identities 
 and to challenge gender norms.  At 
 the same time, however, the petitions also indicate 
 the repressive elements of name change 
 law, as women and transgender people have increasingly 
 felt it necessary to undertake the 
 bureaucratic difficulties associated with name 
 changing in order to establish the personal 
 identity and familial authority that non-trans 
 men are granted automatically in United States 
 legal tradition.  Examining the name change 
 petitions of non-trans women and transgender 
 people (both men and women) illustrates 
 both the promise of name changing, and its limitation, 
 as a vehicle for restructuring gender 
 norms.    \n
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 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Emily Khan\n
 Contact phone: 3-5040\n
 Contact email: gencen@msu.edu\n
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LOCATION:International Center Room 303
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