repronormative

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adjective

Related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiverepronormative (comparative more repronormative, superlative most repronormative)

comparative more repronormative · superlative most repronormative

  1. Related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.

    Science, including social science, has also been used to advance a repronormative objection to same-sex marriage that either denies the procreative capacities of same-sex couples or bemoans the consequences of same-sex parenting.

    2017, Ummni Khan, “Racism, Homophobia, and Complusory Able-Bodiedness in the Controversy over Inter-cousin Marrriage”, in Oishik Sircar, Dipika Jain, editors, New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times, unnumbered page
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    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, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives, page 149

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  9. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  10. Proto-Italic*pro-
  11. Latinprō-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
  14. Proto-Italic*doukō
  15. Latindūcō
  16. Latinprōdūcō
  17. Latinprōductiō
  18. Old Frenchproduction
  19. Middle Englishproduccioun
  20. Englishproduction
  21. Englishreproductionclip.
  22. Englishrepro-
  23. Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃-
  24. Proto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₃sḱéti
  25. Proto-Hellenic*gignṓskō
  26. Ancient Greekγιγνώσκω (gignṓskō)
  27. Ancient Greekγνώμων (gnṓmōn)
  28. Latinnorma
  29. Englishnormative
  30. Englishrepronormative

From repro- + normative.

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repronormative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repronormative

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