Meaning of repronormativity | Babel Free

Definitions

The assumption that all humans want to have children, especially within the context of a monogamous heterosexual relationship.

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Examples

“Her feminist rewriting of the Nation thereby disrupts in its own ways national family values and the Nation's dependence on heterosexual repronormativity.”

“That is to say, repronormativity remains in the closet even while heteronormativity has stepped more into the light of the theoretical and political day.”

“The dynamic may even be more salient in this context, however, as "repronormativty" often conflates womanhood with motherhood (Franke, 2001), and women are more likely than men to provide daily care to children as an empirical matter.”

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