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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Chemistry research.
(c) Health and nutrition.
(d) Biological research.

2. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?
(a) An effect.
(b) A nuisance.
(c) A cause.
(d) A root.

3. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Foundationalist.
(c) Antifoundationalist.
(d) Feminist.

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Woman.

5. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Gender roles.
(b) Solidarity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Masculinity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of media did Herculine write?

2. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?

3. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

5. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?

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