Mononormativity

Victorian-era depiction of the nuclear family

Mononormativity or mono-normativity is the normative assumption that monogamy is healthier or more natural than ethical non-monogamy, as well as the societal enforcement of such an assumption.[1] It has been widely tied to various forms of discrimination or bias against polyamory.[2][3]

The term is also used to instead describe monosexual normativity, akin to monosexism.[4]

  1. ^ Keese, Christian (2016). "Marriage, Law and Polyamory. Rebutting Mononormativity with Sexual Orientation Discourse?". Oñati Socio-legal Series. 6 (6): 1348. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Taya Cassidy, and Gina Wong, Consensually Nonmonogamous Clients and the Impact of Mononormativity in Therapy/Les clients non monogames consensuels et l’impact de la mononormativité en thérapie, ISSN 0826-3893 Vol. 52 No. 2, Pages 119–139 (available online). Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy/Revue canadienne de counseling et de psychothérapie, Athabasca University.
  3. ^ Rodrigues, David L., et al. “Examining the Role of Mononormative Beliefs, Stigma, and Internalized Consensual Non-monogamy Negativity for Dehumanization.” PsyArXiv, 31 Jan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yjwma
  4. ^ Hayfield, Nikki; Křížová, Karolína (2021-04-03). "It's Like Bisexuality, but It Isn't: Pansexual and Panromantic People's Understandings of Their Identities and Experiences of Becoming Educated about Gender and Sexuality". Journal of Bisexuality. 21 (2): 167–193. doi:10.1080/15299716.2021.1911015. ISSN 1529-9716.