Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 24:

1.

Butler wants to resist what kind of a basis for identity politics? (from Conclusion, From Parody to Politics)

Foundationalist.

Faithful.

Christian.

Perfect.

2.

Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification)

Gender.

Sexuality.

Psychoanalysis.

Incest.

3.

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)

Melancholy.

Jealousy.

Elation.

Sexuality.

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)

Infallible.

Solidified.

Concrete.

Variable.

5.

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.

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