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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section III, Monique Wittig, Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Societal mechanisms.
(b) Power discourse.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Feminism.

2. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Foundationalist.
(c) Antifoundationalist.
(d) Feminist.

3. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Social.
(c) Traditional gender.
(d) Liberal.

4. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Gender.
(c) Iden
(d) Sex.

5. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Masculine identity.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Post-feminist politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?

2. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

4. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

5. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?

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