Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 24:

1.

Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Introduction and Section I, Structuralism's Critical Exchange)

Angry revolution.

Masculine revolution.

Poltiical revolution.

Utopian revolution.

2.

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.

Gender identification.

Unconscious identification.

Maternal identification.

3.

Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following? (from Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement)

Feminism.

Societal mechanisms.

Liberation.

Power discourse.

4.

Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following? (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)

Non-binary sexuality.

Secondary sexuality.

Extreme sexuality.

Lack of sexuality.

5.

Herculine says that sex is which of the following? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity)

A root.

An effect.

A nuisance.

A cause.

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