Denoting or relating to a world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.
‘the heteronormative codes of twentieth-century mainstream Western cinema’
‘He is talking about the specific example of gay identity in relation to the heteronormative structures of power.’
‘Then I was thinking I shouldn't impose my heteronormative judgements on people.’
‘Instead of breaking down hetero-normative gender binaries, gay pornography reinforces oppressive sex roles regardless of the actual gender of the participants.’
‘In one way, Hopkins's novel resists containment by a conventional domestic fiction by complicating its portrayal of the heteronormative domestic sphere.’
‘Overall, this is a basic text of use to researchers who may need to realize their own heteronormative assumptions.’
‘Some of this work grows out of queer theory, which focuses on how young gay men engage with heteronormative discourses.’
‘In this article, I argue that the field of composition studies is heteronormative.’
‘Indeed, rather a lot of those who engage in it are heteronormative.’
‘Many early homoerotic underground films and even the earliest of the homoerotic stag films enacted sodomy and fellatio through heteronormative gestures.’
‘In the postemancipation period of American history, sexual exploration and deviations from white heteronormative codes represented avenues of personal freedom.’
‘A gay man beaten by a policeman and a gay son beaten by his father suffer from the same root sources of heteronormative prejudice.’
‘Such a contrary view has been seen as destabilising the supposition of heteronormative sexuality with its attendant conscious and unconscious structures which determine behaviour.’
‘Part one focuses on the "absurdity" of medieval hetero-normative sexuality with the authors attempting to explore other types of sexual behaviour.’
‘They do not challenge the "heteronormative" order.’
‘Each narrative feeds on a construct intricately allied to a vision of a transgressive, female, sexual body through which a masculine, heteronormative hermeneutic might be applied.’
‘This workshop will explore gender theory, grounded in a social constructivism paradigm, as a means of challenging heteronormative culture in the workplace.’
‘I am not going to apologise for what may appear to be more heteronormative homo-social blindness to one's own horizon of intelligibility.’
‘If a man says he has a date and someone refers to the date as female, the assumer can be zinged as "heteronormative."’
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