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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Children.
(c) Identity.
(d) Men.

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

3. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of men for women.
(b) The sexual preference of women for women.
(c) The sexual preference of men for men.
(d) The sexual preference of women for men.

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Woman.

5. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Beauvoir.
(b) Irigaray.
(c) Freud.
(d) Lacan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

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

3. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

4. Butler states that women must take which approach?

5. What does non-reciprocity relate to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

2. What does Butler believe about the definition of gender?

3. What is gender identification?

4. Describe the path Butler outlines that leads to identification.

5. Describe the argument between Foucault and Barbin.

6. What suggestions did Luce Irigaray make?

7. What do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud disagree about?

8. How does Butler describe homoeroticism?

9. What does Butler say about the causes of laws?

10. What are the effects of the counterexamples of well-defined concepts, such as a well-defined category of women?

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