Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers' Assumptions, Talk, and Strategies with Young Children

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“We Want Them to Be as Heterosexual as Possible” (2011, background): “Instead, they actively work to try to ensure that their children, especially sons, enact gender normatively and feel accountable when they do not (Martin 2009; McGuffey 2005; White 1994).”
Normalizing Sexual Violence (2014, unknown): “Unique characteristics emerged through inductive analyses and revealed patterned heterogendered (Martin 2009) and heteronormative scripts appropriated to account for the violence experienced.”
Speaking of Stigma and the Silence of Shame (2017, background): “…2005; Rich 1980; Tolman et al. 2003), hegemonic masculinity (Connell 1987; Connell and Messerschmidt 2005), and heteronormativity (Kitzinger 2005; Martin 2009; Thorne and Luria 1986) consistently finds that traditional gender arrangements, beliefs, and behaviors reinforce men’s access and…”
‘Where do babies come from?’ Barriers to early sexuality communication between parents and young children (2013, background): “To date, only a handful of studies internationally have explored these processes in any detail and, in particular, parental concerns and anxieties associated with the sexual socialisation and sexuality education of young children (Ballard and Gross 2009; Byers, Sears, and Weaver 2008; Davies and Rob”