Citations:cisnormativity

English citations of cisnormativity

Noun: "(LGBT, neologism) the view that all people are cissexual, i.e. have a gender identity that is the same as their biological sex"

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• 2009, Catherine Butler (as Charles Butler), "Experimental Girls: Feminist and Transgender Discourses in Bill's New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?", Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2009, page 15:

  The headlong flight to cisnormativity continues even into the book's endpapers, where the publisher anxiously informs us that "Louis Sachar has never kissed his elbow and has never been a girl" and, moreover, that he is married and a father.

• 2009, Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, & Michelle Boyce, "'I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives': How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People", Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Volume 20, Issue 5, September-October 2009, page 356:

  Cisnormativity shapes social activity such as child rearing, the policies and practices of individuals and institutions, and the organization of the broader social world through the ways in which people are counted and health care is organized.

• 2011, Edward Ou Jin Lee & Shari Brotman, "Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada", Canadian Review of Sociology, Volume 48, Issue 3, August 2011:

  Furthermore, our findings revealed ways in which additional aspects of the Canadian refugee regime are bound by practices of cisnormativity and heteronormativity, and therefore, unable to account for or acknowledge the constant reappearance of structural violence experienced by sexual minority refugees.

• 2012, Matthew Heinz, “Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses”, in Karen Ross, editor, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 336:

  The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity.

• 2012, Carmen H. Logie, LLana James, Wangari Tharao, & Mona R. Loutfy, "'We don't exist': a qualitative study of marginalization experienced by HIV-positive lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender women in Toronto, Canada", Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 15, Number 2:

  The convergence of HIV-related stigma, sexual stigma, homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia and cisnormativity may account for the lack of research focus on HIV-positive LBQT women.

• 2012 Fall, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, “Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity”, in Bluestockings‎^[1], page 41:

  These are the bodily consequences of cisnormativity—the prevalent and presumptuous assumption that cissexuality is the only acceptable and legible form of gender identity—which show us why, when we engage in feminist activism and inquiry, we must be trans-inclusive in our efforts to ensure that every human being deserves decency and justice when wronged.

• 2013, Jeremy Kane, "Sistergirl Inside: Double Colonised, Doubly Trapped: The Discriminating Decision in Sinden v State Of Qld", Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 65-66:

  Due to the cisnormativity of these policies, trans inmates find themselves trapped in a ‘prison-within-a-prison’; trapped in both a ‘notoriously macho’, violently hierarchical environment, where they are vulnerable to high levels of harassment, assault, and rape, and trapped in their bodies as their medical needs are ignored.

• 2013 October 11, Bailey Dineen, “My Queer Rage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun‎^[2], volume 130, number 34, Cornell University, page 7:

  It was cisnormativity (the assumption that every individual identifies with the gender to which they were assigned at birth) and heteronormativity (the assumption that everyone is attracted to members of the opposite sex) that made me deny myself of my own experiences with gender and sexuality for 20 years of my life — 20 years that I will never get back.

• 2013, Lee Thomas, "LGBTQrazy: Why 'both' is a four-letter word", The Brunswickan (University of New Brunswick), Volume 147, Issue 6, 9 October 2013, page 10:

  This works the same way with other aspects of LGBTQ life: cisnormativity isn’t always intentionally transphobic, sexual normativity isn’t always intentionally acephobic, and so on.