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Heteronormativity is the concept that heterosexuality is the preferred or normal sexual orientation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It assumes the gender binary (i.e., that there are only two distinct, opposite genders ) and that sexual and marital relations are most fitting between people of opposite sex.
Compulsory heterosexuality, often shortened to comphet, is the theory that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced upon people by a patriarchal, allonormative, and heteronormative society.
A straight couple. Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender.As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the opposite sex.
Heteronormativity; Human sexuality; Masculinity and LGBT communities [broken anchor] Pansexuality; Sexual orientation hypothesis; Sissy; Sociology of gender; Sociology of the family; Tomboy; Western stereotype of the male ballet dancer
In an influential essay, Michael Warner argued that queerness is defined by what he called 'heteronormativity'; those ideas, narratives and discourses which suggest that heterosexuality is the default, preferred, or normal mode of sexual orientation. Warner stated that while many thinkers had been theorising sexuality from a non-heterosexual ...
Neuroqueer theory is a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. [1] It examines the ways society constructs and defines normalcy, particularly concerning gender, sexual orientation, and dis/ability, and challenges those constructions. [2]
Homonormativity is the adoption of heteronormative ideals and constructs onto LGBT culture and identity. [1] [2] [3] It is predicated on the assumption that the norms and values of heterosexuality should be replicated and performed among homosexual people. [1]
She holds that women receive messages every day that promote heteronormativity in the form of myths and norms perpetuated by society. Rich argues that these myths have been accepted because of the historical lack of exposure that lesbians have received, being either stigmatized as diseased or ignored as non-existent.