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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is true, according to Foucault?

2. What does non-reciprocity relate to?

3. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

4. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

5. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Butler's conclusions about sexual desire.

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

3. According to Witting, what determines gender?

4. How does Butler propose one can explode categories and oppositions?

5. Describe how Butler says bodies are regulated.

6. Describe the nature-culture separation.

7. What does Butler mean when she suggests there is more mere convention in biological research than is supposed?

8. Why does Lacan think women symbolize the phallus?

9. What is postgenital sexuality?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the journals written by Herculine Barbin. What is the significance of Barbin's ideas and theories? How does Butler support and critique them?

Essay Topic 2

What role does language serve to play in oppression? What arguments in Gender Trouble support or refute your opinion?

Essay Topic 3

Describe female identity as Butler describes society as constructing it. Why does Butler see society's view of women as pertaining to male sexual desire? Does she support these arguments effectively?

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