Message from the Guest Editor Gender and Language "Narratives and discourses related to naming, with a special focus on contemporary practices of women's choice of name after marriage and/or divorce in various sociocultural contexts around the world"

The five articles that we have chosen for publication focus on narratives related to women’s lived experience of choosing their name, categories of their legal status, or preference for term of address in various socio-cultural contexts around the world, namely in Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom, India and Spain.