Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 24:

1.

What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification)

Melancholia.

Unconscious identification.

Maternal identification.

Gender identification.

2.

What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section I, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva)

They are oppressive.

They are humble.

They are based on lies.

They are naive.

3.

What does the dominance of man express to Butler? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Introduction and Section I, Structuralism's Critical Exchange)

Homoeroticism.

Feminism.

Heterosexuality.

Masculinity.

4.

What kind of gender norms make certain social forms possible and others impossible, according to Butler? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section IV, Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions)

Concrete.

Infallible.

Solidified.

Variable.

5.

Through apposition, what does Wittig think lesbianism engages? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section III, Monique Wittig, Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex)

Heterosexuality.

Feminism.

Homoeroticism.

Anger.

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