repronormative

repronormative

English

Etymology

repro- +‎ normative

Adjective

repronormative (comparative more repronormative, superlative most repronormative)

1. Related to, consistent with, or espousing repronormativity.
   • 2001, Katherine M. Franke, "Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, And Desire", Columbia Law Review, Volume 101, Number 181, January 2001, page 197:

     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.

   • 2016, Nadyne Stritzke & Elisa Scarmuzza, "Trans*, Intersex, and the Question of Pregnancy: Beyond Repronormative Reproduction", in Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives (ed. Stefan Horlacher), page 149:

     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.

   • 2017, Ummni Khan, "Racism, Homophobia, and Complusory Able-Bodiedness in the Controversy over Inter-cousin Marrriage", in New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (eds. Oishik Sircar & Dipika Jain), unnumbered page:

     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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:repronormative.

Related terms

• repronormativity