allonormativity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˌæ.ləʊ.nɔː.məˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌæ.loʊ.nɔːɹ.məˈtɪv.ə.ti/ (General-American)
Etymology
From allo- + normativity.
Meanings
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(neologism, uncountable) The assumption that all human beings are allosexual or alloromantic, i.e. that they experience sexual attraction and/or romantic attraction to other people.
Because aces differ so much, the ideologies of compulsory sexuality, sex normativity, amatonormativity, and even allonormativity will tend to operate differently upon different types of aces.
2015, Laura, "Asexual community politics and sex aversion", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 2, January 2015, page 18In such a context, those who identify as asexual, inundated as is common by such norms of what we might refer to as allonormativity, are left, as blogger @theacetheist notes, with only two theses with which to incorrectly regard their existences: “I am not a sexual being, therefore I am not human,” or, alternatively, “I am human, therefore I am a sexual being.”
2019, Constance Bougie, “Pink Gauze, Cold Spirits: Asexual Criticism and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway”, in Oshkosh Scholar, volume 14, Oshkosh: University of Wisconsin, page 99:The sooner campuses acknowledge asexuality as a sexual identity, the sooner they can begin examining and addressing the ways they perpetuate allonormativity.
2019, Amanda L. Mollett, Brian Lackman, “Asexual Student Invisibility and Erasure in Higher Education: 'I Thought I Was the Only One'”, in Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Devika Dibya Choudhuri, Jason L. Taylor, editors, Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts: Identity, Policies, and Campus Climate, unnumbered page:
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Translations (1)
ca al·lonormativitat (The assumption of allosexuality or alloromanticism as the norm)