heteronormalize
UK/ˌhɛtəɹəʊˈnɔːməlaɪz/
heteronormalize verb: to alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.
Verb
heteronormalize (third-person singular simple present heteronormalizes, present participle heteronormalizing, simple past and past participle heteronormalized)
- To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.
- As dismayed as I am with Jenks’s editing, it is not, of course, fair to say that he completely heteronormalized Hemingway’s text[.]1999, Debra Moddelmog, Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 88
- 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.2004, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere, illustrated edition, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 58, →ISBN
Examples of heteronormalize in a sentence
- Heterosocial European cultural practices, in other words, heteronormalized Iranian men’s sensibilities.2005, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, illustrated...
- 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.2007, April: Susan Driver, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media, page 209 (illustrated edition; Peter...
- In other words, he ontologizes the symbolic and heteronormalizes us.2007, September: Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, and Sara Rushing, Histories of Postmodernism, page 245 (Routledge; →ISBN, 9780415956130)
Forms of heteronormalize
| third-person singular present | heteronormalizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | heteronormalizing |
| past participle | heteronormalized |
| past | heteronormalized |
Origin of heteronormalize
From hetero- + normalize, on the pattern of heteronormative and heteronormativity.
Questions about heteronormalize
- What does heteronormalize mean?
- Heteronormalize means to alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.
- How do you use heteronormalize in a sentence?
- Heterosocial European cultural practices, in other words, heteronormalized Iranian men’s sensibilities.
- What part of speech is heteronormalize?
- Heteronormalize is a verb.
- How do you pronounce heteronormalize?
- Heteronormalize is pronounced /ˌhɛtəɹəʊˈnɔːməlaɪz/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of heteronormalize?
- The past tense of heteronormalize is heteronormalized.
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