View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section V, Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from the body.
(c) Disconnected from feminism.
(d) Disconnected from destiny.

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Trust.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Unity.
(d) Desire.

3. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Linguistic absence.
(b) Absence of constraint.
(c) Gender absence.
(d) Absence of construction.

4. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) Disappearing.
(b) Ignored.
(c) More open.
(d) Less open.

5. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Master-slave.
(b) Human-animal.
(c) Parent-child.
(d) Religion-science.

Short Answer Questions

1. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?

2. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?

3. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

4. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

5. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 221 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample