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  • noun The quality or state of being normative.

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  • Thus, the quest for equality is based on and reinscribes male normativeness in Judaism, while suppressing specifically female spiritual expression.

    Ritual in the United States. 2009

  • This is by far more empathic and, despite the hetero normativeness maybe a few more posters should be designed? not the usual “sex is actually evil” standard.

    FRENCH SAFER SEX ADS: ART, OBSCENITY, OR PUBLIC HEALTH? » Sociological Images 2008

  • The cultural normativeness that is behind this piece of smear journalism is bad judgment in any paper, and simply astonishing in the New York Times. posted by Eric 8: 00 AM |

    IsThatLegal? 2004

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