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UGC-NET Literature Quiz – Feminist & Gender Studies
1. Who among the following has coined the term ‘eco-feminism’?
2. “Women of Palestine” (1982) and “Indian Women in Struggle” (1980) deal with:
3. Marge Piercy’s novel “Woman on the Edge of Time” (1976) is based on:
4. Which of the following are representative texts of ‘Gynocriticism’?
[A] Patricia Meyer Spacks’ “The Female Imagination”
[B] Mary Ellmann’s “Thinking About Women”
[C] Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s “The Madwoman in the Attic”
[D] Ellen Moers’ “Literary Women”
[E] Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics”
[A] Patricia Meyer Spacks’ “The Female Imagination”
[B] Mary Ellmann’s “Thinking About Women”
[C] Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s “The Madwoman in the Attic”
[D] Ellen Moers’ “Literary Women”
[E] Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics”
5. Who is the author of “A Literature of Their Own”?
6. 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
[A] Sexual Politics
[B] A World of Difference
[C] The Female Imagination
[D] Thinking About Women
[E] A Room of One’s Own
7. Kimberlé 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
[A] Academic deterioration
[B] Racial justice
[C] Peace formation
[D] Complex construction of power
[E] Identity politics
8. Match List I with List II:
List I (Books)
[A] Gender and Nation
[B] Greek Homosexuality
[C] The Subject of Tragedy
[D] The Souls of Black Folk
List II (Authors)
[I] Catherine Belsey
[II] K.J. Dover
[III] W.E.B. Du Bois
[IV] Nira Yuval-Davis
9. Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elaine Showalter?
[A] Feminine
[B] Gynic
[C] Womanish
[D] Feminist
[E] Female
[A] Feminine
[B] Gynic
[C] Womanish
[D] Feminist
[E] Female
10. 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
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
11. Who among the following distinguished the ‘constatives’ from the ‘performatives’?
12. 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 Révolution du Langage Poétique
E) The Madwoman in the Attic
A) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
B) Illuminations
C) Syntax and Semantics
D) La Révolution du Langage Poétique
E) The Madwoman in the Attic
13. Name the author of “Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century”.
14. The term ‘Gynocriticism’ refers to:
15. 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
(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
