There are other ways women have been made to disappear. There is the business of naming.In some cultures women keep their names, but in most their ch… - Rebecca Solnit

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There are other ways women have been made to disappear. There is the business of naming.In some cultures women keep their names, but in most their children take the father's name, and in the English-speaking world until very recently, prefaced by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Bronte and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's genealogy and even her existence.