What’s in a surname?

She drags her last name around with pride, but it doesn’t give her the same honour.

Imagine an invisibility cloak that follows a woman wherever she goes. It hides the right half of her body and makes it transparent. A man stands behind her, making her body appear half hers and half his. Nobody finds it strange because people believe that a woman’s identity is inextricably linked to the men in her life. An invisibility cloak sounds mystical, something that can only appear in fantasy movies. But if you look more closely, a woman has walked around with it since her birth. It is her surname.