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Heteronormativity vs Heteronormalize - What's the difference?

heteronormativity | heteronormalize |

As a noun heteronormativity

is the view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.

As a verb heteronormalize is

to alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.

heteronormativity

English

Noun

(heteronormativities)
  • The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
  • Discrimination against non-heteronormative individuals.
  • Situations wherein non-heteronormative individuals are ignored or presumed to not exist.

    • Coordinate terms

    * cisnormativity

    heteronormalize

    English

    Verb

  • To alter so as to be consistent with heteronormativity; render heteronormative.
  • * 1999 : Debra Moddelmog, Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway , page 88] ([http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3239 Cornell University Press; ISBN 9780801486357)
    • As dismayed as I am with Jenks’s editing, it is not, of course, fair to say that he completely heteronormalized Hemingway’s text[.]
  • * 2004 : Joan Wallach Scott and Debra Keates, Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere , page 58 (illustrated edition; University of Illinois Press; ISBN 025202964X, 9780252029646)
    • 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.
  • * 2005 : Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity , page 54 (illustrated edition, annotated; University of California Press; ISBN 0520242629, 9780520242623)
    • Heterosocial European cultural practices, in other words, heteronormalized Iranian men’s sensibilities.
  • * 2007, April: Susan Driver, Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media , page 209 (illustrated edition; Peter Lang; ISBN 0820479365, 9780820479361)
    • 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, September: Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, and Sara Rushing, Histories of Postmodernism , page 245 (Routledge; ISBN 0415956137, 9780415956130)
    • In other words, he ontologizes the symbolic and heteronormalizes us.