Meaning of heteronormalize | Babel Free

Definitions

To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.

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Examples

“As dismayed as I am with Jenks’s editing, it is not, of course, fair to say that he completely heteronormalized Hemingway’s text[.]”

“That modernist efforts to heteronormalize Iranian society have not focused on the production of the homosexual as a type has had significant repercussions on yet another level.”

“Heterosocial European cultural practices, in other words, heteronormalized Iranian men’s sensibilities.”

“Kearney reveals not only how riot grrrls became exoticized as young sexy “punkettes,” commodifying their surface appearances, but also how they are repeatedly heteronormalized as straight girls.”

“In other words, he ontologizes the symbolic and heteronormalizes us.”

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