Sentences with phrase «compulsory heterosexuality»

Virtually all the social forces and institutions reinforce compulsory heterosexuality and if sexual fluidity means that actual orientation changes due to these cues, then homosexual orientation should be much more rare and unstable than it is.
We have been the major institutional legitimizer of compulsory heterosexuality» (Christianity and Crisis, May 19, 1986, p. 179) Evangelicals confess that they have been guilty of homophobia.
In her pivotal article on «Compulsory Heterosexuality,» Adrienne Rich highlights the isolation that many women feel as they risk this separation:
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