Definition of heteronormative in English:
heteronormative
adjective ˌhɛt(ə)rə(ʊ)ˈnɔːmətɪvˌhedərōˈnôrmədiv
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
Example sentencesExamples
- In this article, I argue that the field of composition studies is heteronormative.
- He is talking about the specific example of gay identity in relation to the heteronormative structures of power.
- Overall, this is a basic text of use to researchers who may need to realize their own heteronormative assumptions.
- 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.
- Then I was thinking I shouldn't impose my heteronormative judgements on people.
- Some of this work grows out of queer theory, which focuses on how young gay men engage with heteronormative discourses.
- They do not challenge the "heteronormative" order.
- Indeed, rather a lot of those who engage in it are heteronormative.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I am not going to apologise for what may appear to be more heteronormative homo-social blindness to one's own horizon of intelligibility.
- Many in the black arts community in Los Angeles were particularly offended by the preponderance of images of homosexuality and the nonidealized (in the heteronormative sense) portrayals of black masculinity.
- This workshop will explore gender theory, grounded in a social constructivism paradigm, as a means of challenging heteronormative culture in the workplace.
- If a man says he has a date and someone refers to the date as female, the assumer can be zinged as "heteronormative."
Definition of heteronormative in US English:
heteronormative
adjectiveˌhedərōˈnôrmədiv
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
Example sentencesExamples
- Many early homoerotic underground films and even the earliest of the homoerotic stag films enacted sodomy and fellatio through heteronormative gestures.
- If a man says he has a date and someone refers to the date as female, the assumer can be zinged as "heteronormative."
- This workshop will explore gender theory, grounded in a social constructivism paradigm, as a means of challenging heteronormative culture in the workplace.
- In the postemancipation period of American history, sexual exploration and deviations from white heteronormative codes represented avenues of personal freedom.
- In one way, Hopkins's novel resists containment by a conventional domestic fiction by complicating its portrayal of the heteronormative domestic sphere.
- They do not challenge the "heteronormative" order.
- Some of this work grows out of queer theory, which focuses on how young gay men engage with heteronormative discourses.
- Many in the black arts community in Los Angeles were particularly offended by the preponderance of images of homosexuality and the nonidealized (in the heteronormative sense) portrayals of black masculinity.
- I am not going to apologise for what may appear to be more heteronormative homo-social blindness to one's own horizon of intelligibility.
- In this article, I argue that the field of composition studies is heteronormative.
- Then I was thinking I shouldn't impose my heteronormative judgements on people.
- 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.
- Part one focuses on the "absurdity" of medieval hetero-normative sexuality with the authors attempting to explore other types of sexual behaviour.
- Instead of breaking down hetero-normative gender binaries, gay pornography reinforces oppressive sex roles regardless of the actual gender of the participants.
- Overall, this is a basic text of use to researchers who may need to realize their own heteronormative assumptions.
- Such a contrary view has been seen as destabilising the supposition of heteronormative sexuality with its attendant conscious and unconscious structures which determine behaviour.
- He is talking about the specific example of gay identity in relation to the heteronormative structures of power.
- Indeed, rather a lot of those who engage in it are heteronormative.
- A gay man beaten by a policeman and a gay son beaten by his father suffer from the same root sources of heteronormative prejudice.