Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

Judith Butler

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Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section I,

Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section II, The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire

Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section III, Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate

Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section IV, Theorizing the Binary, The Unitary, and Beyond

Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section V, Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance

Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement

Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Introduction and Section I, Structuralism's Critical Exchange

Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section II, Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade and Section III, Freud and the Melancholia of Gender

Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification

Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section V, Reformulating Prohibition as Power

Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section I, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva

Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity

Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section III, Monique Wittig, Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex

Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section IV, Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions

Conclusion, From Parody to Politics

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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)

Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section I, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva)

Kristeva views female homosexuality as which of the following? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section I, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva)

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

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)