I don't know how similar feminism in Britain is to feminism in America, but I do still spend quite a suprising amount of time explaining to strangers that, no, there is no Mrs. Zhou, because my mother kept her "maiden name"; and it takes all my self-control sometimes not to explain that, actually, "maiden name" isn't even entirely appropriate in this case, because women of Chinese decent generally don't do the whole changing-one's-family-name-upon-marriage thing. People sometimes have a lot of trouble understanding why my mother and I don't share a last name, and don't even seem to have the analogue of feminist practices for comparison.
(Which is, incidentally, the other reason I don't feel comfortable with "Miss" and "Mrs." as hypothetically applied to myself, feminist sensibilities in regards to that whole argument aside--I always thought that "Miss" implies "this is my 'maiden name,' which I intend to abandon upon marriage" while "Mrs." implies "This is not the name under which I was born," neither of which is appropriate for me personally.)
Anyway, I... think it's still too pervasively normative for Western women to change their surnames when they marry to be certain either way in regards to Hermione, although, personally--not having thought about it much before, given that HP isn't one of my primary fandoms--I do agree that it's quite likely she wouldn't.
Apropos of nothing--I think Dairine and Nita are less likely to change their surnames than Hermione, especially considering the differences between DD and JKR ;)
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Date: 2010-01-26 10:57 am (UTC)(Which is, incidentally, the other reason I don't feel comfortable with "Miss" and "Mrs." as hypothetically applied to myself, feminist sensibilities in regards to that whole argument aside--I always thought that "Miss" implies "this is my 'maiden name,' which I intend to abandon upon marriage" while "Mrs." implies "This is not the name under which I was born," neither of which is appropriate for me personally.)
Anyway, I... think it's still too pervasively normative for Western women to change their surnames when they marry to be certain either way in regards to Hermione, although, personally--not having thought about it much before, given that HP isn't one of my primary fandoms--I do agree that it's quite likely she wouldn't.
Apropos of nothing--I think Dairine and Nita are less likely to change their surnames than Hermione, especially considering the differences between DD and JKR ;)