Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 24:

1.

Kristeva views female homosexuality as which of the following? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section I, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva)

Psychosis.

Healing.

Spiritual.

Natural.

2.

Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them? (from Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement)

All patriarchal.

Not all bad.

All bad.

Never patriarchal.

3.

Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section V, Reformulating Prohibition as Power)

Anger.

Prohibition.

Social forces.

Subversion.

4.

Wittig claims that _____ is not the rejection of heterosexuality? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section III, Monique Wittig, Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex)

Feminism.

Lesbianism.

Masculinity.

Homoeroticism.

5.

What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification)

Melancholia.

Gender identification.

Maternal identification.

Unconscious identification.

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