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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section IV, Theorizing the Binary, The Unitary, and Beyond.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Science and religion.
(b) Destiny and fate.
(c) Society and self.
(d) Determinism and free will.
2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(b) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(c) How sexality is a societal construction.
(d) How gender asymmetry is generated.
3. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Men.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.
4. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Entrapping assumptions.
(b) Societal mechanisms.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Feminist politics.
5. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Undermines identity.
(b) Marginilizes people.
(c) Increases identity.
(d) Supports feminist politics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
2. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
3. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
5. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
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