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metronormativity

metronormativity noun: the assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all queer people over rural spaces.

Noun

metronormativity (countable and uncountable, plural metronormativities)

  1. The assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all queer people over rural spaces.
    • Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural.In plain sight an exploration of gay rights, LGBTQ women, and rural place
    • Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self."2020, Maxwell Cloe, Metronormativity

Forms of metronormativity

pluralmetronormativities

Origin of metronormativity

From metro- + normativity.

Questions about metronormativity

What does metronormativity mean?
Metronormativity means the assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all queer people over rural spaces.
What part of speech is metronormativity?
Metronormativity is a noun.
What is the plural of metronormativity?
The plural of metronormativity is metronormativities.

Words near metronormativity in the dictionary

  1. metronomizes
  2. metronomizing
  3. metronomy
  4. metronormative
  5. metronormativities
  6. metronormativity
  7. metrons
  8. metronym
  9. metronymic
  10. metronymics
  11. metronyms

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