repronormativity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From repro(duction) + normativity.
Noun
[edit]repronormativity (uncountable)
- The assumption that all humans want to have children, especially within the context of a monogamous heterosexual relationship.
- 2000, Jarrod Hayes, Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb, page 183:
- Her feminist rewriting of the Nation thereby disrupts in its own ways national family values and the Nation's dependence on heterosexual repronormativity.
- 2001 January, Katherine M. Franke, “Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, And Desire”, in Columbia Law Review, volume 101, number 181, page 185:
- That is to say, repronormativity remains in the closet even while heteronormativity has stepped more into the light of the theoretical and political day.
- 2015, Laura A. Rosenbury, “A Feminist Perspective on Children and Law: From Objectification to Relational Subjectivities”, in Tali Gal, Benedetta Duramy, editors, International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies, unnumbered page:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:repronormativity.