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Compulsory heterosexuality

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Compulsory heterosexuality is the idea that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced by a patriarchal society. [1]

26 relations: Adrienne Rich, Barbara Ehrenreich, Biphobia, Bisexual erasure, Catharine MacKinnon, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Deirdre English, Deviance (sociology), Heteronormativity, Heterosexism, Heterosexuality, Heterosociality, Homosexuality, Institution, Jean Baker Miller, Kathleen Gough, Lesbian, List of feminist literature, Marriage, Nancy Chodorow, Patriarchy, Sexism, Sexual orientation, Socialization, Stevi Jackson, Tacit assumption.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.

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Biphobia

Biphobia is aversion toward bisexuality and toward bisexual people as a social group or as individuals.

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Bisexual erasure

Bisexual erasure or bisexual invisibility is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or reexplain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia, the news media, and other primary sources.

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Catharine MacKinnon

Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American scholar, lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist.

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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" is a 1980 essay by Adrienne Rich, which was also published in her 1986 book Blood, Bread, and Poetry as a part of the radical feminism movement of the late '60s, '70s, and '80s.

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Deirdre English

Deirdre English (born in 1948) is the former editor of Mother Jones and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries.

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Deviance (sociology)

In sociology, deviance describes an action or behavior that violates social norms, including a formally enacted rule (e.g., crime), as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores).

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Heteronormativity

Heteronormativity is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.

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Heterosexism

Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships.

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Heterosexuality

Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender.

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Heterosociality

In sociology, heterosociality describes social relations with persons of the opposite sex or a preference for such relations, often excluding relationships of a romantic and sexual nature.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Institution

Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior".

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Jean Baker Miller

Jean Baker Miller (1927–2006) was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, social activist, feminist, and author.

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Kathleen Gough

Eleanor Kathleen Gough Aberle (16 August 1925 – 8 September 1990) was a British anthropologist and feminist who was known for her work in South Asia and South-East Asia.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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List of feminist literature

Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Nancy Chodorow

Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst.

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Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.

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Socialization

In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.

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Stevi Jackson

Stevi Jackson (born 23 June 1951), is an academic and writer working in the field of gender and sexuality.

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Tacit assumption

A tacit assumption or implicit assumption is an assumption that includes the underlying agreements or statements made in the development of a logical argument, course of action, decision, or judgment that are not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker or judge.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_heterosexuality

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