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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 claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?
(a) Sex.
(b) Faith.
(c) Identity.
(d) Gender.

2. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?
(a) Gender.
(b) Sex.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Social regulations.

3. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Psychoanalytic.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Bisexuality.

4. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Relieve.
(b) Oppress.
(c) Support.
(d) Judge.

5. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Utopian revolution.
(b) Angry revolution.
(c) Poltiical revolution.
(d) Masculine revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

2. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

3. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?

4. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?

5. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

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