Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 24:

1.

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)

Power discourse.

Feminism.

Societal mechanisms.

Liberation.

2.

Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following? (from Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification)

Melancholy of gender.

Incorporation.

Sex.

Identity.

3.

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 nuisance.

An effect.

A cause.

A root.

4.

What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws? (from Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section I, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva)

They are based on lies.

They are oppressive.

They are naive.

They are humble.

5.

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.

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