repronormative
repronormative adjective: related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.
Adjective
repronormative (comparative more repronormative, superlative most repronormative)
- Related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.
- For these reasons, I hope legal feminists might consider the ways in which repronormative forces affect women's child-bearing and raising "choices," just as (hetero)sexuality has come to be understood as both compulsory and ineluctably the product of heteronormative forces.2001 January, Katherine M. Franke, “Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, And Desire”, in Columbia Law Review, volume 101, number 181, page 197
- The infringement of human rights, the right to physical integrity, demonstrates that societies violently aim to eliminate reproduction that deviates from repronormative binarism and, through this measure, to re-establish repronormativity.2016, Nadyne Stritzke, Elisa Scarmuzza, “Trans*, Intersex, and the Question of Pregnancy: Beyond Repronormative Reproduction”, in Stefan Horlacher, editor, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical...
Forms of repronormative
| comparative | more repronormative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most repronormative |
Origin of repronormative
From repro- + normative.
Questions about repronormative
- What does repronormative mean?
- Repronormative means related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.
- What part of speech is repronormative?
- Repronormative is an adjective.
Words near repronormative in the dictionary
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