Editing Heteronormativity (section)

==Etymology==
[[Michael Warner]] popularized the term in 1991,<ref name="warner1991">{{cite journal |last1=Warner |first1=Michael |title=Introduction: Fear of a Queer Planet |journal=Social Text |date=1991 |issue=29 |pages=3–17 |jstor=466295 }}</ref> in one of the first major works of [[queer theory]]. The concept's roots are in [[Gayle Rubin]]'s notion of the "sex/gender system" and [[Adrienne Rich]]'s notion of [[Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence|compulsory heterosexuality]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rich |first1=Adrienne |authorlink=Adrienne Rich|title=Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence |journal=Signs |date=July 1980 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=631–660 |doi=10.1086/493756 |s2cid=143604951 }}</ref> From the outset, theories of heteronormativity included a critical look at gender; Warner wrote that "every person who comes to a queer self-understanding knows in one way or another that her stigmatization is intricated with gender. ... Being queer ... means being able, more or less articulately, to challenge the common understanding of what [[gender difference]] means."<ref name="warner1991"/> [[Lauren Berlant]] and Warner further developed these ideas in their seminal essay "Sex in Public":

{{Quote|text=Heteronormativity is more than ideology, or prejudice, or phobia against gays and lesbians; it is produced in almost every aspect of the forms and arrangements of social life: nationality, the state, and the law; commerce; medicine; and education; as well as in the conventions and affects of narrativity, romance, and other protected spaces of culture.<ref name="Berlant98" />}}