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Feminist Criticism – (Previous Year Questions UGC-NET English)
1. Who, from among the following, has NOT been discussed by Simone de Beauvoir in “The Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Second Sex?
2. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists?
3. The earliest tract on feminism is:
4. The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is:
5. The term “womanism” was first used by:
6. Two among the following critics have dealt with the reproduction of motherhood in feminist theory:
I. Nancy Chodorow
II. Judith Fetterley
III. Catherine R. Stimpson
IV. Carol Gilligan
The right combination according to the code is:
7. While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf refers to ______’s History of England.
8. The author of Gender Trouble is:
9. Which of the following books is written by a woman?
10. The “madwoman in the attic” is a specific reference to:
11. Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks?
12. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A):
Gender studies do not see an urgent need to help us navigate the various pitfalls of racism, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and plain ignorance that flow from using “culture” as an explanatory tool.
Reason (R):
Issues relating to Women’s rights, gender roles, sexuality and family obligations are centrally implicated in the so-called clash of civilizations between Christianity or Secularism, and Islam.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct:
13. In which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic] and not a slave” to the conventions of the literary market-place, there would be “no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it”?
14. Julia Kristeva’s ‘intertextuality’ derives from:
a. Noam Chomsky’s deep structure
b. Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism
c. Jacques Derrida’s differance
d. Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign
The right combination according to the code is:
15. The label ‘material feminism’ refers to the work of those thinkers who study inequality in terms of:
16. Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?
17. Who among the following displays in her best work the dual influence of feminism and magic realism?
18. Tennyson’s poem about women’s rights and women’s sphere is:
19. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism?
20. This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in the 1970s which used hybrid terms like “sext” and “chaosmos.” Identify the author.
21. Read the following quote:
“Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking cruelly, she continued, football and sport are important, the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes trivial.”
Name the author and the text:
22. Which of the following does not describe some of the practices/beliefs of feminist literary criticism?
23. According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the _______ within the _______ that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.
24. Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Felicia Hemans are:
25. Identify the gynocritics in the following list:
I. Alice Jardine
II. Elaine Showalter
III. Sandra Gilbert
IV. Kate Millett
The right combination according to the code is:
26. Match the title with the author:
Titles:
(a) Sexual Politics
(b) A Literature of Their Own
(c) Thinking About Women
(d) The Laugh of the Medusa
Authors:
(i) Mary Ellman
(ii) Elaine Showalter
(iii) Helene Cixous
(iv) Kate Millet
(a) (b) (c) (d)
27. Who among the following proposed that the English Language is “man made”, not “woman made”?
28. Which two of the following statements are applicable to feminist criticism?
(A) Recuperate the female writers ignored by the canon
(B) Fully endorse the social construction of gender
(C) Valorize the traditional canon uncritically
(D) Mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’
Choose the correct option:
29. Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female experience captured in a style of writing different from men’s?
A. Elaine Showalter
B. Luce Irigaray
C. Kate Millett
D. Simone de Beauvoir
E. Helene Cixous
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
30. Which two texts among the following are linked to literary feminism?
A. A Small Place
B. The Yellow Wallpaper
C. Emma
D. A Room of One’s Own
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
31. Match the term with the theorist:
Term:
(a) Negritude
(b) Womanism
(c) Interpellation
(d) Public Sphere
Theorist:
(1) Alice Walker
(2) Jurgen Habermas
(3) Aime Cesaire
(4) Louis Althusser
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Intertextuality derives from Bakhtin’s dialogism and Saussure’s signs. The option isn’t there