denaturalizing

The Frankenstein story's denaturalizing of conventional gender roles reverberates in any number of its adaptationse. g.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Such is the effect of time, and communication among nations, that the mixture with an heterogenous language has not only an influence upon roots, but most frequently ends by modifying and denaturalizing grammatical forms.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

[52] They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827

Such is the effect of time, and communication among nations, that the mixture with an heterogenous language has not only an influence upon roots, but most frequently ends by modifying and denaturalizing grammatical forms.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

14 By denaturalizing the ideal Barbie represents, these artists call attention to the power of real violence and to the power of imaginary violence.

The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

14 By denaturalizing the ideal Barbie represents, these artists call attention to the power of real violence and to the power of imaginary violence.

The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

My old friend Tavia Nyong'o, over at Bully Bloggers has written a beautifully intelligent piece that asks whether, instead of obsessing over the naturalness of Semenya's gender, we might imagine "turning the question around and denaturalizing the world of gender segregated, performance-obsessed, commercially-driven sports, a world that can neither seem to do with or without excessive bodies like Semenya’s and their virtuosic performances?"

Archive 2009-09-01 Tenured Radical 2009

Quite a lot of people are saying stop bringing in legal immigrants, some are even talking about flouting the plain language of the 14th Amendment and denaturalizing natural born US citizens if their parents weren’t in lawful immigration status.

Matthew Yglesias » More Immigration 2007

Re: Quite a lot of people are saying stop bringing in legal immigrants, some are even talking about flouting the plain language of the 14th Amendment and denaturalizing natural born US citizens if their parents weren’t in lawful immigration status.

Matthew Yglesias » More Immigration 2007