"compulsory heterosexuality" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633",
          "text": "In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of \"preference\" or \"innate orientation\" even indirectly questioned.",
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