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The essay discusses the relationship between several potentially conflicting discourses: sexism, anti-sexism and “political correctness”. In order to analyse the way that the hypothesised relationship between these discourses is played out within people’s discursive practices, I have tried to elicit, through the distribution of a questionnaire, feminist professional women’s views on their choices about their surnames and titles, since this seems to be a key discursive site of struggle where these antagonistic discourses are seen to exert some force.