Dictionary

heteronormalize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˌhɛtəɹəʊˈnɔːməlaɪz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• hĕ'tərōnôʹməlīz (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From hetero- + normalize, on the pattern of heteronormative and heteronormativity.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.
   • 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:
   • 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)
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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)

Forms

Translations (3)

de heteronormalisieren (Translations) · fi tehdä heteronormatiiviseksi (Translations) · pl czynić heteronomicznym (Translations)