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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 VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 the body.
(b) Disconnected from destiny.
(c) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(d) Disconnected from feminism.

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

4. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of bodies.
(b) Metaphysics of substance.
(c) Metaphysics of determinism.
(d) Metaphysics of constraint.

5. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-political.
(c) Post-masculinity.
(d) Post-structuralist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

2. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?

3. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?

4. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

5. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

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