The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's n — Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's n — Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's n — Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's n — Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's n — Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
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The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am.

— Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
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