Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 24:

1.

Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation? (from 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)

Elation.

Jealousy.

Melancholy.

Sexuality.

2.

Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold? (from Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement)

Ontology of feminism.

Ontology of sex.

Ontology of gender.

Ontology of liberation.

3.

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

Worrisome.

Angsty.

Wry.

Self-defeating.

4.

Butler says that if we deconstruct which of the following, we need not deconstruct feminist politics? (from Conclusion, From Parody to Politics)

Faith.

Gender.

Identity.

Sexuality.

5.

What kind of subjects does Butler describe? (from Conclusion, From Parody to Politics)

Concrete.

Faithful.

Situated.

Variable.

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