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Who among the following has coined the terms, ‘eco- feminism’?

[1] Monique Wittig

[2] Francoise d’Eaubonne

[3] Helene Cixous

[4] Marguerite Duras

Answer: 2

Women of Palestine (1982) and Indian women in struggle (1980) deal with:

[1] Women’s religious and familial issues

[2] Female militancy and political involvement

[3] Women’s struggle at their workplace

[4] Women’s reproductive rights

Answer: [2] Female militancy and political involvement

Marge Piercy’s novel woman on the edge of time (1976) is based on-

[1] Shulamith firestone’s The Dialectic of sex

[2] Margaret Atwood’s The handmaid’s tale

[3] Lewis caroll’s Alice in wonderland

[4] Donna Haraway’s A cyborg manifesto

Answer: [1] Shulamith firestone’s The Dialectic of sex

Which of the following are representative texts of ‘Gynocriticism?

[A] Patricial Meyer spacks’ The female imagination

[B] Mary Ellman’s Thinking about women

[C] Sandra gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The madwoman in the attic

[D] Ellen moer’s literary women

[E] Kate Millett’s sexual politics

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A and B only

[2] A, B and C only

[3] B, D and E only

[4] A, C and D only

Answer: [4] A, C and D only

Who is the author of a literature of their own?

[1] Sandra gilbert and Susan Gubar

[2] Elaine Showalter

[3] Virginia Woolf

[4] Sylvia Plath

Answer: [2] Elaine Showalter

What is the correct sequence of the following feminist texts?

[A] Sexual politics

[B] A world of difference

[C] The female imagination

[D] Thinking about women

[E] A room of one’s own

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)

[2] (E), (B), (D), (A), (C)

[3] (E), (D), (A), (C), (B)

[4] (B), (C), (D), (E), (A)

Answer: [3] (E), (D), (A), (C), (B)

Kimberle Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” is widely used for

[A] Academic deterioration

[B] Racial justice

[C] Peace formation

[D] Complex construction of power

[E] Identity politics

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

[1] B, D and E only

[2] A, C and E only

[3] B, D and C only

[4] C, D and E only

Answer: [1] B, D and E only

Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] Gender and nation

[B] Greek homosexuality

[C] The subject of tragedy

[D] The souls of black folk

List II

[I] Catherine Belsey

[II] K.J. dover

[III] W.E.B. Du Bois

[IV] Nira Yuval-Davis

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

[2] (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

[3] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

[4] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Answer: [4] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elain Showalter?

[A] Feminine

[B] Gynie

[C] Womanish

[D] Feminist

[E] Female

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B and C only

[2] A, D and E only

[3] A, B and E only

[4] B, C and D only

Answer: [2] A, D and E only

Which of the following two books have their roots in Foucauldian thoughts on sexuality?

A) Metahistory

B) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

C) The Role of the Reader

D) Epistemology of the Closet

E) Sexual Politics

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) B and C only.

2) A and D only.

3) A and C only.

4) B and D only.

Answer: 4) B and D only.

Who among the following distinguished the ‘constatives’ from the ‘performatives’?

1) John Austin

2) Judith Butler

3) Stanley Fish

4) Mary Louise Pratt

Answer: 1) John Austin

Which of the following books are written by Julia Kristeva?

A) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

B) Illuminations

C) Syntax and Semantics

D) La revolution du language poétique

E) The Madwoman in the Attic

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and C

2) B and A

3) A and D

4) B and E

Answer: 3) A and D

Name the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century.

1) A Sinfield

2) K Peacock

3) R Hayman

4) JR Taylor

Answer:1) A Sinfield

Q.50) The term ‘Gynocriticism’ refers to :

(1) Feminist consciousness

(2) Production of writings on women by men

(3) Analysis of Andro texts

(4) Production and analysis of writings by women on women

Answer: (4) Production and analysis of writings by women on women

Identify the correct option in Julia Kristeva’s definition of ‘chora’:

(A) Liminal Space

(B) Space of the marginalised

(C) Non-expressive totality created by the bodily drives

(D) The chora has no fixed identity

(E) It precedes the linguistic sign

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B) and (E) Only

(2) (C), (D) and (E) Only

(3) (A), (C) and (D) Only

(4) (A), (B) and (C) Only

Answer: (2) (C), (D) and (E) Only