Citations:amatonormative

Adjective: "(neologism) privileging or valuing romantic relationships as fundamental or natural"

 * 2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 94:
 * Amatonormative discrimination is widely practiced. Its existence is not controversial. What is controversial is the claim that it is wrongful discrimination and not simply justified differential treatment—that it is arbitrary and hence, at least in law, unjust.
 * 2015, Alix Alto, "Polyamory's Place In The Feminist Movement", Huntington Crossroads (Northeastern University), Fall 2015, page 23:
 * Amatonormative essentialists, anti-polyamory feminists, and pro-polyamory feminists alike often miss that it's not a new phenomenon.
 * 2017, Christopher Arroyo, Kant’s Ethics and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate - An Introduction, page 19:
 * Such radicalism is justified, on [sic] her view, because current legal systems that enshrine amatonormative marriage into law are inconsistent with the ideals of political liberalism, since any “more-than minimal” conception of marriage presupposes particular substantive conceptions of the good, which political liberalism rules out.
 * 2017, Matthew A. Hoffman & Sara Kolmes, "When Clark Met Diana: Friendship and Romance in Comics", in Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique (ed. Jacob M. Held), page 87:
 * Both friends explicitly reject the amatonormative assumption that they are potential romantic partners.
 * 2020, Constance Wilde, "What does it mean to be asexual in an increasingly sexualised world?", Lot's Wife, Edition 1 (2020), page 28:
 * This is in direct opposition to amatonormative ideas about the "right" way to start a family.