heteronormalize

present singular third person heteronormalizes · participle present heteronormalizing · participle past heteronormalized · past heteronormalized

1. transitiveTo alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.

   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)

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   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

   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 edition, annotated; University of California Press, →ISBN, page 54, →ISBN

   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 Lang; →ISBN, 9780820479361)