Male sexuality is constructed as 'simple', unfettered by emotional attachments and very significant in shaping gendered normative practices in heterosexual negotiation (see, for example, Clowes et al. 2009; Shefer and Foster 2009; Wood, Maforah, and Jewkes 1998).
Many questions abound: is thinking to be understood as a psychological process or, indeed, something that can be properly described, or is thinking in Arendt's sense always an exercise of judgment of some kind, and so implicated in a normative practice.
At what point in our cultural evolution did it become normative practice to send a text the night after a first date, with the words "nipple" and "naked" in it?
More than 50% of the women in our study reported dieting, making it a normative practice.
"Muslim scholars should not judge this man on the Segway, but in no way could Islamic jurisprudence be used to justify this as normative practice.
The thought would be to claim that law is a normative practice, and normative facts cannot be reduced to purely non-normative facts without losing something essential.
But in neither case is there any call for revision of anything substantive in our views of ourselves or in our normative practices.
Each time we apply some natural, empirically guided interpretation in practice, we participate in shaping evolving normative practices (both linguistic and behavioral practices).
In detailed historical analyses, feminist and ethnomethodological studies of the history of science have been able to show the contingency of normative practices (Epstein 1996; Longino 1990).
Some questions addressed culturally normative practices surrounding maternal food choices and consumption, including how women negotiate normative practices within their own worldview and experiences.
