Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
In Queer Studies, queer identity is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer identity often functions as a flexible and critical challenge to fixed classifications of gender and sexuality.
• Option A is correct because Queer Studies examines how identities are historically produced and socially regulated.
• Queer does not necessarily describe one uniform identity or experience.
• The term may also express cultural and political resistance to normative expectations.
• Option A is correct because Queer Studies examines how identities are historically produced and socially regulated.
• Queer does not necessarily describe one uniform identity or experience.
• The term may also express cultural and political resistance to normative expectations.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Heteronormativity refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Heteronormativity treats heterosexuality as the expected and privileged form of sexuality.
• Option B is correct because it also commonly assumes a stable binary division between men and women.
• Institutions such as family, education, law and media may reproduce heteronormative expectations.
• The concept does not mean that every individual consciously endorses these assumptions.
• Option B is correct because it also commonly assumes a stable binary division between men and women.
• Institutions such as family, education, law and media may reproduce heteronormative expectations.
• The concept does not mean that every individual consciously endorses these assumptions.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which theorist is most closely associated with the concept of gender performativity?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Judith Butler developed the influential theory of gender performativity.
• Butler argues that gender is constituted through repeated acts, norms and social conventions.
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is especially associated with queer reading, sexuality and the epistemology of the closet.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Butler argues that gender is constituted through repeated acts, norms and social conventions.
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is especially associated with queer reading, sexuality and the epistemology of the closet.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity suggests that gender:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Performativity means that gender is produced through repeated bodily acts, language and social conventions.
• Option D is correct because these repetitions create the appearance of a stable gender identity.
• Performativity is not the same as a voluntary theatrical performance.
• Butler emphasizes both the regulatory force of norms and the possibility of their disruption.
• Option D is correct because these repetitions create the appearance of a stable gender identity.
• Performativity is not the same as a voluntary theatrical performance.
• Butler emphasizes both the regulatory force of norms and the possibility of their disruption.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which work by Judith Butler became a foundational text in Queer Studies?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Judith Butler's Gender Trouble was published in 1990.
• The work questions stable distinctions among sex, gender and desire.
• It develops the critique of identity categories and the concept of gender performativity.
• The other works are important feminist texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millett and Germaine Greer respectively.
• The work questions stable distinctions among sex, gender and desire.
• It develops the critique of identity categories and the concept of gender performativity.
• The other works are important feminist texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millett and Germaine Greer respectively.
వివరణ:
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which scholar wrote Epistemology of the Closet?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote Epistemology of the Closet, published in 1990.
• The book examines the organization of modern knowledge around the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality.
• It became a foundational work of Queer Studies.
• Judith Butler's Gender Trouble appeared in the same year but develops a different theoretical project.
• The book examines the organization of modern knowledge around the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality.
• It became a foundational work of Queer Studies.
• Judith Butler's Gender Trouble appeared in the same year but develops a different theoretical project.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet is centrally concerned with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Sedgwick analyses how modern Western culture organizes sexuality through binaries of secrecy and disclosure.
• Option C is correct because the closet is both a personal condition and a structure of social knowledge.
• The work questions simple divisions between heterosexual and homosexual identity.
• It also demonstrates how sexuality shapes literary and cultural interpretation.
• Option C is correct because the closet is both a personal condition and a structure of social knowledge.
• The work questions simple divisions between heterosexual and homosexual identity.
• It also demonstrates how sexuality shapes literary and cultural interpretation.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
In cultural analysis, the gaze refers primarily to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gaze describes how looking can be structured by gender, sexuality and power.
• Option D is correct because visual culture may position some subjects as viewers and others as objects of inspection or desire.
• The gaze is therefore more than the physical act of seeing.
• Queer and feminist criticism examine how conventional visual positions can be reproduced or disrupted.
• Option D is correct because visual culture may position some subjects as viewers and others as objects of inspection or desire.
• The gaze is therefore more than the physical act of seeing.
• Queer and feminist criticism examine how conventional visual positions can be reproduced or disrupted.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
The medicalization of sexuality occurs when:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Medicalization transforms aspects of sexuality into objects of diagnosis, treatment and professional regulation.
• Option A is correct because medical classifications have historically defined some desires or identities as normal and others as pathological.
• Such classifications can have legal, institutional and personal consequences.
• Queer Studies examines how expert knowledge participates in producing sexual categories.
• Option A is correct because medical classifications have historically defined some desires or identities as normal and others as pathological.
• Such classifications can have legal, institutional and personal consequences.
• Queer Studies examines how expert knowledge participates in producing sexual categories.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Queer approaches to masculinity and femininity generally emphasize that they are:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer theory treats masculinity and femininity as culturally produced rather than biologically inevitable.
• Option B is correct because individuals may inhabit, combine or resist these positions in different ways.
• Gender norms are maintained through repeated expectations and institutional practices.
• Masculinity and femininity also vary across class, race, caste, nation and sexuality.
• Option B is correct because individuals may inhabit, combine or resist these positions in different ways.
• Gender norms are maintained through repeated expectations and institutional practices.
• Masculinity and femininity also vary across class, race, caste, nation and sexuality.
వివరణ:
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which statement best describes queer media criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer media criticism studies narrative roles, stereotypes, visibility, desire and systems of representation.
• Option C is correct because it asks how media normalize some identities while marginalizing others.
• Numerical inclusion alone cannot explain whether a representation is complex or stereotypical.
• Visibility may be politically important, but it does not automatically eliminate inequality.
• Option C is correct because it asks how media normalize some identities while marginalizing others.
• Numerical inclusion alone cannot explain whether a representation is complex or stereotypical.
• Visibility may be politically important, but it does not automatically eliminate inequality.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which example most clearly represents cultural resistance to heteronormativity?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cultural resistance challenges dominant assumptions about legitimate gender identities and relationships.
• Option D is correct because it expands representation beyond compulsory heterosexuality and binary gender.
• Resistance can operate through literature, cinema, performance, activism and everyday self-representation.
• The other options reinforce heteronormative cultural expectations.
• Option D is correct because it expands representation beyond compulsory heterosexuality and binary gender.
• Resistance can operate through literature, cinema, performance, activism and everyday self-representation.
• The other options reinforce heteronormative cultural expectations.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Gender performativity means that gender is produced through repeated social acts.
Statement II: Performativity means that individuals consciously invent a completely new gender every day.
Statement II: Performativity means that individuals consciously invent a completely new gender every day.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because repeated acts and conventions constitute recognizable gender identities.
• Statement II is incorrect because performativity is not unrestricted personal choice or casual role-playing.
• Gender acts occur within powerful social norms that precede the individual.
• Therefore, option A correctly evaluates the two statements.
• Statement II is incorrect because performativity is not unrestricted personal choice or casual role-playing.
• Gender acts occur within powerful social norms that precede the individual.
• Therefore, option A correctly evaluates the two statements.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Heteronormativity operates only through explicit legal prohibition.
Statement II: It may also operate through ordinary assumptions in family life, language and media.
Statement II: It may also operate through ordinary assumptions in family life, language and media.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because heteronormativity is not limited to explicit laws.
• Statement II is correct because routine cultural assumptions may privilege heterosexuality without openly stating a prohibition.
• Media narratives, school practices and family expectations can normalize particular identities.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• Statement II is correct because routine cultural assumptions may privilege heterosexuality without openly stating a prohibition.
• Media narratives, school practices and family expectations can normalize particular identities.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Butler questions the idea that gender expresses a natural inner identity.
Reason: Repeated gendered acts produce the appearance of a stable and original essence.
Reason: Repeated gendered acts produce the appearance of a stable and original essence.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Butler rejects the idea of gender as the expression of a pre-existing essence.
• The Reason is correct because repetition makes socially regulated gender appear natural and stable.
• This appearance of originality is an effect of performative acts.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because repetition makes socially regulated gender appear natural and stable.
• This appearance of originality is an effect of performative acts.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
వివరణ:
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Medical classifications of sexuality are culturally and historically significant.
Reason: Such classifications can define normality, shape identities and justify institutional regulation.
Reason: Such classifications can define normality, shape identities and justify institutional regulation.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because medical categories have influenced social understandings of sexuality.
• The Reason is correct because diagnostic systems can shape self-identification, public policy and institutional treatment.
• These effects explain the cultural significance of medicalization.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• The Reason is correct because diagnostic systems can shape self-identification, public policy and institutional treatment.
• These effects explain the cultural significance of medicalization.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about Queer Studies:
1. It questions stable identity categories.
2. It examines the regulation of sexuality.
3. It assumes heterosexuality is naturally universal.
4. It studies cultural resistance to gender norms.
Which statements are correct?
1. It questions stable identity categories.
2. It examines the regulation of sexuality.
3. It assumes heterosexuality is naturally universal.
4. It studies cultural resistance to gender norms.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Queer Studies questions the stability and naturalness of identity categories.
• Statement 2 is correct because sexuality is regulated through institutions, discourse and representation.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because queer theory critiques the assumption that heterosexuality is universally natural.
• Statement 4 is correct because cultural resistance is a major concern.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because sexuality is regulated through institutions, discourse and representation.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because queer theory critiques the assumption that heterosexuality is universally natural.
• Statement 4 is correct because cultural resistance is a major concern.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about gender performativity:
1. It involves repeated acts and conventions.
2. It produces the appearance of stable identity.
3. It is identical with voluntary theatrical performance.
4. It allows norms to be repeated in altered or resistant ways.
Which statements are correct?
1. It involves repeated acts and conventions.
2. It produces the appearance of stable identity.
3. It is identical with voluntary theatrical performance.
4. It allows norms to be repeated in altered or resistant ways.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because gender is constituted through repeated bodily and linguistic practices.
• Statement 2 is correct because repetition creates the effect of continuity and stability.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because performativity is not simply conscious acting.
• Statement 4 is correct because repetition can vary and potentially expose the instability of norms.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because repetition creates the effect of continuity and stability.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because performativity is not simply conscious acting.
• Statement 4 is correct because repetition can vary and potentially expose the instability of norms.
• Hence, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Judith Butler
2. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
3. Heteronormativity
4. Medicalization
List II
I. Classification through medical knowledge
II. Epistemology of the Closet
III. Gender performativity
IV. Privileging heterosexual and binary norms
List I
1. Judith Butler
2. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
3. Heteronormativity
4. Medicalization
List II
I. Classification through medical knowledge
II. Epistemology of the Closet
III. Gender performativity
IV. Privileging heterosexual and binary norms
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Judith Butler matches gender performativity.
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick matches Epistemology of the Closet.
• Heteronormativity matches the privileging of heterosexual and binary norms.
• Medicalization matches classification through medical knowledge.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick matches Epistemology of the Closet.
• Heteronormativity matches the privileging of heterosexual and binary norms.
• Medicalization matches classification through medical knowledge.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Queer identity
2. Gaze
3. Masculinity
4. Cultural resistance
List II
I. Contesting normative meanings and representations
II. Socially organized form of masculine identification
III. Critical challenge to fixed sexual categories
IV. Power structured through practices of looking
List I
1. Queer identity
2. Gaze
3. Masculinity
4. Cultural resistance
List II
I. Contesting normative meanings and representations
II. Socially organized form of masculine identification
III. Critical challenge to fixed sexual categories
IV. Power structured through practices of looking
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer identity matches a critical challenge to fixed sexual categories.
• Gaze matches power structured through practices of looking.
• Masculinity matches a socially organized form of masculine identification.
• Cultural resistance matches the contestation of normative meanings and representations.
• Thus, option D is correct.
• Gaze matches power structured through practices of looking.
• Masculinity matches a socially organized form of masculine identification.
• Cultural resistance matches the contestation of normative meanings and representations.
• Thus, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
A performer exaggerates conventional masculine gestures until they appear artificial and comic. Butler's theory would interpret this as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Exaggeration can expose supposedly natural masculine behaviour as stylized and repeatedly produced.
• Option A is correct because altered repetition may reveal the constructed character of gender norms.
• Butler does not claim that such performances automatically abolish gender regulation.
• The example demonstrates the critical potential within performative repetition.
• Option A is correct because altered repetition may reveal the constructed character of gender norms.
• Butler does not claim that such performances automatically abolish gender regulation.
• The example demonstrates the critical potential within performative repetition.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A television series includes a queer character but depicts that character only as tragic, isolated and incapable of lasting relationships. This is best analysed as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The character is visible, but the narrative confines queer identity to suffering and isolation.
• Option B is correct because inclusion can coexist with restrictive stereotyping.
• Queer media criticism considers narrative agency, complexity and recurring representational patterns.
• Visibility alone does not guarantee cultural equality.
• Option B is correct because inclusion can coexist with restrictive stereotyping.
• Queer media criticism considers narrative agency, complexity and recurring representational patterns.
• Visibility alone does not guarantee cultural equality.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following is NOT consistent with Queer Studies?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer Studies examines the historical construction and regulation of sexual identities.
• It analyses how media and institutions privilege certain forms of gender and desire.
• Option C is inconsistent because queer theory questions fixed and universal identity essences.
• Bodies are material, but their social meanings are produced through cultural frameworks.
• It analyses how media and institutions privilege certain forms of gender and desire.
• Option C is inconsistent because queer theory questions fixed and universal identity essences.
• Bodies are material, but their social meanings are produced through cultural frameworks.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Butler and Sedgwick is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Butler is closely associated with the performative constitution of gender and the critique of stable identity.
• Sedgwick examines sexuality through the closet, disclosure and modern structures of knowledge.
• Option D accurately distinguishes their major theoretical emphases.
• Both thinkers challenge essentialist and heteronormative accounts of identity.
• Sedgwick examines sexuality through the closet, disclosure and modern structures of knowledge.
• Option D accurately distinguishes their major theoretical emphases.
• Both thinkers challenge essentialist and heteronormative accounts of identity.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best integrates queer identity, the body, representation and cultural resistance?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer Studies examines how bodies and identities are organized through discourse, institutions and representation.
• Heteronormative norms privilege some identities while marginalizing others.
• Cultural practices can expose, parody, revise or resist these norms.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of regulation and resistance.
• Heteronormative norms privilege some identities while marginalizing others.
• Cultural practices can expose, parody, revise or resist these norms.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of regulation and resistance.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. A critical position that questions fixed categories of gender and sexuality సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The assumption that heterosexuality and binary gender relations are natural and socially normative సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Judith Butler సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Is constituted through repeated acts governed by social norms సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Gender Trouble సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. The cultural organization of knowledge, secrecy and disclosure around sexuality సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. A socially organized way of looking that may position bodies within relations of power సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Sexual identities or practices are classified and regulated through medical categories సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Culturally regulated positions that can be repeated, negotiated and transformed సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. It examines how media construct, regulate or challenge sexual and gender norms సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Creating narratives that validate diverse relationships and non-binary identities సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect 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. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion 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-II, 3-IV, 4-I సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-II, 4-I సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. A repetition that may reveal the constructed character of gender norms సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Visibility constrained by a restrictive cultural stereotype సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Every identity category has a fixed universal essence సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Butler emphasizes gender performativity, while Sedgwick analyses sexuality, secrecy and structures of knowledge సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Gendered and sexual identities are culturally regulated, but their representations and repeated norms can be contested and transformed సమాధానం: A.