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repronormative

repronormative adjective: related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.

Adjective

repronormative (comparative more repronormative, superlative most repronormative)

  1. 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

comparativemore repronormative
superlativemost 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

  1. repromulgated
  2. repromulgates
  3. repromulgating
  4. repromulgation
  5. repromulgations
  6. repronormative
  7. repronormativity
  8. repronounce
  9. repronounced
  10. repronounces
  11. repronouncing

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