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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?
(a) They are naive.
(b) They are oppressive.
(c) They are humble.
(d) They are based on lies.

2. Butler describes repression of bisexuality as a locus of which of the following?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) Bisexuality.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Incest.

3. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Masculinity.

4. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The children of the earth.
(b) The vagina.
(c) The earth.
(d) The phallus.

5. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Education.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Political action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?

2. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

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

4. Kristeva views female homosexuality as which of the following?

5. Lacan viewed cultural meaning's need for relating women to the maternal to be which of the following?

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