Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which distinction is most commonly made between sex and gender in feminist cultural theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Feminist theory commonly distinguishes biological classification from socially organized gender identities and expectations.
• Option A is correct because gender roles are learned, represented and regulated through culture and institutions.
• The distinction does not imply that biological categories are interpreted outside culture.
• Contemporary theories also examine how sex itself is understood through discourse and power.
• Option A is correct because gender roles are learned, represented and regulated through culture and institutions.
• The distinction does not imply that biological categories are interpreted outside culture.
• Contemporary theories also examine how sex itself is understood through discourse and power.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Patriarchy is best defined as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Patriarchy refers to social structures that privilege men and masculine authority.
• Option B is correct because patriarchal power may operate through family, law, education, religion, work and media.
• It is broader than individual prejudice or a single domestic conflict.
• Feminist Cultural Studies investigates how patriarchy is reproduced and resisted through representation and everyday practice.
• Option B is correct because patriarchal power may operate through family, law, education, religion, work and media.
• It is broader than individual prejudice or a single domestic conflict.
• Feminist Cultural Studies investigates how patriarchy is reproduced and resisted through representation and everyday practice.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Gender roles are:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gender roles are expectations attached to socially recognized gender positions.
• Option C is correct because cultures regulate behaviour, dress, emotion, labour and responsibility differently across genders.
• These roles vary historically and geographically.
• Media, family, education and religion often contribute to their reproduction.
• Option C is correct because cultures regulate behaviour, dress, emotion, labour and responsibility differently across genders.
• These roles vary historically and geographically.
• Media, family, education and religion often contribute to their reproduction.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which statement best describes feminist media criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Feminist media criticism examines representation, production, reception and institutional power.
• Option D is correct because it studies how gender hierarchies may be normalized or contested through media.
• It may analyse stereotypes, narrative agency, visual pleasure, labour and audience response.
• Its scope extends beyond technical evaluation or consumer statistics.
• Option D is correct because it studies how gender hierarchies may be normalized or contested through media.
• It may analyse stereotypes, narrative agency, visual pleasure, labour and audience response.
• Its scope extends beyond technical evaluation or consumer statistics.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
The statement that one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman is associated with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Simone de Beauvoir develops this argument in The Second Sex.
• The statement emphasizes that femininity is socially and historically produced rather than simply biologically given.
• It became foundational to later distinctions between sex and gender.
• The other thinkers are important to feminist or gender studies but are not associated with this formulation.
• The statement emphasizes that femininity is socially and historically produced rather than simply biologically given.
• It became foundational to later distinctions between sex and gender.
• The other thinkers are important to feminist or gender studies but are not associated with this formulation.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Domesticity as a gender ideology most often associates women with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The ideology of domesticity assigns women primary responsibility for home, childcare and emotional care.
• Option B is correct because much of this reproductive labour is unpaid or socially undervalued.
• Feminist criticism examines how domesticity limits access to public power and paid employment.
• It also studies how women negotiate and resist domestic expectations.
• Option B is correct because much of this reproductive labour is unpaid or socially undervalued.
• Feminist criticism examines how domesticity limits access to public power and paid employment.
• It also studies how women negotiate and resist domestic expectations.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
The term body politics refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Body politics concerns the social regulation and cultural meaning of bodies.
• Option C is correct because gendered bodies are shaped by norms involving beauty, sexuality, reproduction, health and respectability.
• Feminist analysis asks who has authority to define acceptable bodies.
• The concept connects personal embodiment with institutions, discourse and power.
• Option C is correct because gendered bodies are shaped by norms involving beauty, sexuality, reproduction, health and respectability.
• Feminist analysis asks who has authority to define acceptable bodies.
• The concept connects personal embodiment with institutions, discourse and power.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which concept is most closely associated with R.W. Connell's work on masculinity?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• R.W. Connell is closely associated with the concept of hegemonic masculinity.
• It refers to the culturally dominant model of masculinity that legitimizes men's power and ranks other masculinities.
• The concept does not imply that every man fully embodies the dominant ideal.
• It also helps analyse relations among gender, class, race and sexuality.
• It refers to the culturally dominant model of masculinity that legitimizes men's power and ranks other masculinities.
• The concept does not imply that every man fully embodies the dominant ideal.
• It also helps analyse relations among gender, class, race and sexuality.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
The male gaze, as theorized by Laura Mulvey, describes:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Laura Mulvey introduced the influential concept of the male gaze in feminist film theory.
• Option A is correct because classical visual narratives may align the camera, male characters and spectatorship around the objectification of women.
• The concept concerns cinematic structure rather than the biological sex of every viewer.
• It has been widely debated, extended and revised in later media criticism.
• Option A is correct because classical visual narratives may align the camera, male characters and spectatorship around the objectification of women.
• The concept concerns cinematic structure rather than the biological sex of every viewer.
• It has been widely debated, extended and revised in later media criticism.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which statement best explains the gendered division of labour?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gendered division of labour assigns different forms of work to different genders.
• Option B is correct because women have often been concentrated in unpaid care work and lower-paid occupations.
• Cultural beliefs may present this unequal arrangement as natural.
• Feminist analysis connects labour with economic structures, domesticity and social recognition.
• Option B is correct because women have often been concentrated in unpaid care work and lower-paid occupations.
• Cultural beliefs may present this unequal arrangement as natural.
• Feminist analysis connects labour with economic structures, domesticity and social recognition.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
A cultural stereotype of women is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Stereotypes reduce complex social groups to a small number of supposedly fixed characteristics.
• Option C is correct because women may be repeatedly represented as passive, emotional, decorative or naturally domestic.
• Such images can normalize unequal expectations.
• Feminist cultural practice may expose, parody or transform stereotypes.
• Option C is correct because women may be repeatedly represented as passive, emotional, decorative or naturally domestic.
• Such images can normalize unequal expectations.
• Feminist cultural practice may expose, parody or transform stereotypes.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which example best illustrates resistance to gender norms?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Resistance challenges the cultural rules that define supposedly proper feminine or masculine behaviour.
• Option D is correct because alternative narratives can provide marginalized genders with voice, agency and complexity.
• Resistance may occur through literature, film, performance, activism or everyday practice.
• The other options reproduce rather than challenge gender norms.
• Option D is correct because alternative narratives can provide marginalized genders with voice, agency and complexity.
• Resistance may occur through literature, film, performance, activism or everyday practice.
• The other options reproduce rather than challenge gender norms.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Feminist Cultural Studies treats representation as connected with power.
Statement II: Repeated media images can help naturalize gender stereotypes.
Statement II: Repeated media images can help naturalize gender stereotypes.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because representation influences who becomes visible, authoritative or marginalized.
• Statement II is correct because repetition can make historically produced stereotypes appear natural.
• Media images participate in shaping expectations about gendered identity and behaviour.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement II is correct because repetition can make historically produced stereotypes appear natural.
• Media images participate in shaping expectations about gendered identity and behaviour.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Masculinity studies assumes that all men possess the same social power.
Statement II: Masculinities may be differentiated by class, race, sexuality and other social relations.
Statement II: Masculinities may be differentiated by class, race, sexuality and other social relations.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because masculinity studies distinguishes among dominant, subordinate, complicit and marginalized positions.
• Statement II is correct because masculinity intersects with class, race, caste, sexuality and nationality.
• Not all men benefit equally from patriarchal arrangements.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• Statement II is correct because masculinity intersects with class, race, caste, sexuality and nationality.
• Not all men benefit equally from patriarchal arrangements.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Feminist analysis treats unpaid domestic labour as socially significant.
Reason: Domestic labour helps reproduce households, workers and social life even when it is not formally waged.
Reason: Domestic labour helps reproduce households, workers and social life even when it is not formally waged.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because feminist theory challenges the invisibility of unpaid household and care work.
• The Reason is correct because cooking, cleaning, caregiving and emotional support sustain social and economic life.
• This reproductive function explains why domestic labour is socially significant.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• The Reason is correct because cooking, cleaning, caregiving and emotional support sustain social and economic life.
• This reproductive function explains why domestic labour is socially significant.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Body politics concerns only personal choices about appearance.
Reason: Standards of beauty and bodily respectability are shaped by media, markets and institutions.
Reason: Standards of beauty and bodily respectability are shaped by media, markets and institutions.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is incorrect because body politics extends beyond isolated personal preference.
• The Reason is correct because institutions and media establish norms concerning beauty, health, sexuality and respectability.
• Personal bodily practices are shaped by wider cultural pressures and inequalities.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• The Reason is correct because institutions and media establish norms concerning beauty, health, sexuality and respectability.
• Personal bodily practices are shaped by wider cultural pressures and inequalities.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about patriarchy:
1. It can operate through family and law.
2. It can shape media representation.
3. It affects all women in exactly the same way.
4. It may be challenged through collective cultural and political action.
Which statements are correct?
1. It can operate through family and law.
2. It can shape media representation.
3. It affects all women in exactly the same way.
4. It may be challenged through collective cultural and political action.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because patriarchal authority can be embedded in domestic and legal institutions.
• Statement 2 is correct because representation may reproduce masculine privilege and feminine subordination.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because gender interacts with class, race, caste, sexuality and other differences.
• Statement 4 is correct because feminist movements and cultural interventions can contest patriarchy.
• Hence, option A is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because representation may reproduce masculine privilege and feminine subordination.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because gender interacts with class, race, caste, sexuality and other differences.
• Statement 4 is correct because feminist movements and cultural interventions can contest patriarchy.
• Hence, option A is correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about feminist media criticism:
1. It studies narrative agency.
2. It examines patterns of objectification.
3. It assumes audiences are always passive.
4. It may analyse production and employment within media industries.
Which statements are correct?
1. It studies narrative agency.
2. It examines patterns of objectification.
3. It assumes audiences are always passive.
4. It may analyse production and employment within media industries.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because feminist criticism asks who acts, speaks and controls the narrative.
• Statement 2 is correct because objectification is a major concern in visual and media culture.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because feminist audience studies may emphasize negotiation, pleasure and resistance.
• Statement 4 is correct because gender inequality also operates behind the screen through labour and ownership.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because objectification is a major concern in visual and media culture.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because feminist audience studies may emphasize negotiation, pleasure and resistance.
• Statement 4 is correct because gender inequality also operates behind the screen through labour and ownership.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Patriarchy
2. Domesticity
3. Body politics
4. Hegemonic masculinity
List II
I. Dominant cultural ideal of masculine authority
II. Regulation and valuation of bodies
III. Institutional reproduction of male privilege
IV. Association of women with home and caregiving
List I
1. Patriarchy
2. Domesticity
3. Body politics
4. Hegemonic masculinity
List II
I. Dominant cultural ideal of masculine authority
II. Regulation and valuation of bodies
III. Institutional reproduction of male privilege
IV. Association of women with home and caregiving
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Patriarchy matches the institutional reproduction of male privilege.
• Domesticity matches the association of women with home and caregiving.
• Body politics matches the regulation and valuation of bodies.
• Hegemonic masculinity matches the dominant cultural ideal of masculine authority.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
• Domesticity matches the association of women with home and caregiving.
• Body politics matches the regulation and valuation of bodies.
• Hegemonic masculinity matches the dominant cultural ideal of masculine authority.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Simone de Beauvoir
2. Laura Mulvey
3. R.W. Connell
4. Feminist media criticism
List II
I. Hegemonic masculinity
II. Gender as social becoming
III. Analysis of gendered representation and media power
IV. Male gaze
List I
1. Simone de Beauvoir
2. Laura Mulvey
3. R.W. Connell
4. Feminist media criticism
List II
I. Hegemonic masculinity
II. Gender as social becoming
III. Analysis of gendered representation and media power
IV. Male gaze
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Simone de Beauvoir matches gender as social becoming.
• Laura Mulvey matches the male gaze.
• R.W. Connell matches hegemonic masculinity.
• Feminist media criticism matches the analysis of gendered representation and media power.
• Thus, option D is the correct matching code.
• Laura Mulvey matches the male gaze.
• R.W. Connell matches hegemonic masculinity.
• Feminist media criticism matches the analysis of gendered representation and media power.
• Thus, option D is the correct matching code.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
A television advertisement shows women performing all household work while men make financial decisions. This representation most clearly reproduces:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The advertisement assigns domestic labour to women and authority to men.
• Option A is correct because it reproduces both patriarchal hierarchy and domestic gender roles.
• Repeated images of this kind may naturalize unequal divisions of labour.
• Feminist criticism would ask how the advertisement could redistribute agency and responsibility.
• Option A is correct because it reproduces both patriarchal hierarchy and domestic gender roles.
• Repeated images of this kind may naturalize unequal divisions of labour.
• Feminist criticism would ask how the advertisement could redistribute agency and responsibility.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A film gives its female protagonist narrative agency but repeatedly frames her body for visual consumption. This example best demonstrates:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The protagonist possesses some narrative power, but the visual framing may still objectify her.
• Option B is correct because cultural texts can contain contradictory gender politics.
• Feminist criticism examines both narrative action and modes of looking.
• Representation cannot be judged through a single feature alone.
• Option B is correct because cultural texts can contain contradictory gender politics.
• Feminist criticism examines both narrative action and modes of looking.
• Representation cannot be judged through a single feature alone.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A beauty campaign claims to celebrate diversity but digitally alters every model to fit the same narrow body ideal. This most clearly illustrates:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The campaign uses inclusive language while visually enforcing a standardized body ideal.
• Option C is correct because body politics can operate through subtle discipline and commercial representation.
• The example reveals a contradiction between promotional claims and representational practice.
• Feminist analysis studies how markets can absorb the language of empowerment without abandoning restrictive norms.
• Option C is correct because body politics can operate through subtle discipline and commercial representation.
• The example reveals a contradiction between promotional claims and representational practice.
• Feminist analysis studies how markets can absorb the language of empowerment without abandoning restrictive norms.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which of the following is NOT consistent with feminist Cultural Studies?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Feminist Cultural Studies treats gender as historically and culturally produced.
• It examines media as a site where meanings are reproduced and contested.
• Masculinity studies recognizes multiple and unequal masculinities.
• Option D is inconsistent because gender intersects with class, race, caste, sexuality, nationality and disability.
• It examines media as a site where meanings are reproduced and contested.
• Masculinity studies recognizes multiple and unequal masculinities.
• Option D is inconsistent because gender intersects with class, race, caste, sexuality, nationality and disability.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best integrates gender, labour, representation and resistance?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gendered power operates through family, employment, media, law and everyday expectations.
• Representations can legitimize unequal labour divisions and bodily norms.
• Feminist cultural production, criticism and collective action can challenge these arrangements.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of power and resistance.
• Representations can legitimize unequal labour divisions and bodily norms.
• Feminist cultural production, criticism and collective action can challenge these arrangements.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of power and resistance.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Sex refers mainly to biological classification, while gender refers to socially produced identities and roles సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A social order in which male authority and masculine privilege are institutionally reproduced సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Culturally organized expectations concerning behaviour, appearance and social responsibility సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. It analyses how media representations reproduce or challenge gendered relations of power సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Simone de Beauvoir సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Home, caregiving and unpaid reproductive labour సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Struggles over how bodies are regulated, represented, disciplined and valued సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Hegemonic masculinity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. A visual structure that positions women as objects of heterosexual masculine looking సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Paid and unpaid tasks are allocated and valued differently according to gender సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. A simplified and repeated image that reduces women to limited traits or roles సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Creating cultural narratives that redistribute agency and question fixed gender roles సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Assertion is incorrect, but Reason is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-II, 4-I సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 1-II, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-III సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Patriarchal gender roles and the ideology of domesticity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. A contradiction between female agency and gendered visual representation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Inclusive language combined with disciplinary body politics సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Women's experiences can be explained by gender alone without reference to other inequalities సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Gendered power is reproduced through institutions and images, but cultural practices can expose and transform it సమాధానం: A.