Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which thinker is most closely associated with the concept of écriture féminine?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hélène Cixous is a major theorist of écriture féminine.
• The concept encourages forms of writing that resist phallocentric language and fixed gender hierarchies.
• Cixous links such writing with plurality, bodily experience and linguistic excess.
• Butler, Crenshaw and Sedgwick are associated respectively with performativity, intersectionality and queer theory.
• The concept encourages forms of writing that resist phallocentric language and fixed gender hierarchies.
• Cixous links such writing with plurality, bodily experience and linguistic excess.
• Butler, Crenshaw and Sedgwick are associated respectively with performativity, intersectionality and queer theory.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which essay by Hélène Cixous famously urges women to write the body?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Laugh of the Medusa is Cixous's influential essay on women's writing and bodily expression.
• It calls for women to write themselves rather than remain confined by masculine symbolic systems.
• The essay associates écriture féminine with multiplicity, desire and disruption.
• This Sex Which Is Not One is by Luce Irigaray, while the other works are by Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
• It calls for women to write themselves rather than remain confined by masculine symbolic systems.
• The essay associates écriture féminine with multiplicity, desire and disruption.
• This Sex Which Is Not One is by Luce Irigaray, while the other works are by Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Écriture féminine is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Écriture féminine names a mode of writing that challenges rigid, hierarchical and phallocentric forms of language.
• It is associated with plurality, fluidity, the body and resistance to fixed identity.
• It is not simply a genre or a biological category restricted to all and only women.
• The concept questions the supposed neutrality of dominant linguistic and literary conventions.
• It is associated with plurality, fluidity, the body and resistance to fixed identity.
• It is not simply a genre or a biological category restricted to all and only women.
• The concept questions the supposed neutrality of dominant linguistic and literary conventions.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which theorist wrote This Sex Which Is Not One?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Luce Irigaray wrote This Sex Which Is Not One.
• The work critiques phallocentric accounts of sexual difference and examines the reduction of woman to the mirror or opposite of man.
• Irigaray often emphasizes multiplicity in female sexuality and expression.
• Cixous, Kristeva and Butler develop related but distinct approaches to gender, language and subjectivity.
• The work critiques phallocentric accounts of sexual difference and examines the reduction of woman to the mirror or opposite of man.
• Irigaray often emphasizes multiplicity in female sexuality and expression.
• Cixous, Kristeva and Butler develop related but distinct approaches to gender, language and subjectivity.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What does Irigaray primarily criticize through the concept of phallocentrism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Phallocentrism privileges masculine subjectivity, language and value as universal standards.
• Woman is then represented as absence, lack or deficient variation of the masculine norm.
• Irigaray exposes how philosophical and psychoanalytic systems reproduce this hierarchy.
• Her critique seeks to make sexual difference thinkable without reducing it to sameness or opposition.
• Woman is then represented as absence, lack or deficient variation of the masculine norm.
• Irigaray exposes how philosophical and psychoanalytic systems reproduce this hierarchy.
• Her critique seeks to make sexual difference thinkable without reducing it to sameness or opposition.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which thinker is associated with the distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic in language?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Julia Kristeva distinguishes the semiotic from the symbolic as interacting dimensions of signification.
• The semiotic is linked with rhythm, drives, tones and disruptions of stable syntax.
• The symbolic is associated with grammar, social order and structured signification.
• Kristeva does not treat these dimensions as completely separate or permanently opposed.
• The semiotic is linked with rhythm, drives, tones and disruptions of stable syntax.
• The symbolic is associated with grammar, social order and structured signification.
• Kristeva does not treat these dimensions as completely separate or permanently opposed.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
In Kristeva's theory, the semiotic is most closely associated with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The semiotic refers to rhythmic, tonal and drive-related energies operating within signifying practice.
• It may disrupt or unsettle the stable organization of the symbolic.
• The semiotic is not outside language altogether; it works within and upon signification.
• Legal identity and stable grammar belong more closely to the symbolic dimension.
• It may disrupt or unsettle the stable organization of the symbolic.
• The semiotic is not outside language altogether; it works within and upon signification.
• Legal identity and stable grammar belong more closely to the symbolic dimension.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which work by Judith Butler is foundational to the theory of gender performativity?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gender Trouble is Judith Butler's foundational work on gender performativity.
• It critiques the assumption that gender expresses a stable inner essence.
• Butler argues that gender is constituted through repeated acts, norms and stylized practices.
• The other works are associated with Cixous, Sedgwick and Irigaray.
• It critiques the assumption that gender expresses a stable inner essence.
• Butler argues that gender is constituted through repeated acts, norms and stylized practices.
• The other works are associated with Cixous, Sedgwick and Irigaray.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
What does Butler mean by gender performativity?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Performativity means that repeated acts and norms produce the appearance of a stable gender identity.
• Gender is not simply an expression of a pre-existing inner essence.
• The term does not imply that gender is a freely chosen performance without constraint.
• Social regulation, language and embodied repetition shape the possibilities of gendered life.
• Gender is not simply an expression of a pre-existing inner essence.
• The term does not imply that gender is a freely chosen performance without constraint.
• Social regulation, language and embodied repetition shape the possibilities of gendered life.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which statement best distinguishes performance from performativity in Butler's theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A performance may refer to a particular staged or intentional act.
• Performativity refers to the repeated citation of norms through which an identity is constituted.
• These repetitions are socially constrained and need not be consciously chosen.
• Butler's theory therefore goes beyond the idea that gender is merely theatrical role-playing.
• Performativity refers to the repeated citation of norms through which an identity is constituted.
• These repetitions are socially constrained and need not be consciously chosen.
• Butler's theory therefore goes beyond the idea that gender is merely theatrical role-playing.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which thinker wrote Epistemology of the Closet?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote Epistemology of the Closet.
• The work examines modern Western structures of knowledge surrounding homosexuality and heterosexuality.
• Sedgwick analyses secrecy, disclosure and the unstable binary of homosexual and heterosexual identities.
• The book is a foundational contribution to queer theory.
• The work examines modern Western structures of knowledge surrounding homosexuality and heterosexuality.
• Sedgwick analyses secrecy, disclosure and the unstable binary of homosexual and heterosexual identities.
• The book is a foundational contribution to queer theory.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Queer theory most directly questions:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer theory challenges the assumption that categories such as heterosexual, homosexual, masculine and feminine are natural and fixed.
• It studies how norms produce identities, exclusions and hierarchies.
• Queer analysis also examines instability, contradiction and non-normative possibilities.
• It does not deny history, literary form or the importance of sexuality.
• It studies how norms produce identities, exclusions and hierarchies.
• Queer analysis also examines instability, contradiction and non-normative possibilities.
• It does not deny history, literary form or the importance of sexuality.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Butler treats gender as the expression of a stable pre-social essence.
Statement II: Butler argues that repeated norms and acts help constitute gender identity.
Statement I: Butler treats gender as the expression of a stable pre-social essence.
Statement II: Butler argues that repeated norms and acts help constitute gender identity.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because Butler rejects the idea of gender as the expression of a stable pre-social essence.
• Statement II is correct because repeated acts and norms produce the appearance of coherent identity.
• Performativity is constrained by social conventions rather than chosen without limits.
• Therefore, option C correctly evaluates the statements.
• Statement II is correct because repeated acts and norms produce the appearance of coherent identity.
• Performativity is constrained by social conventions rather than chosen without limits.
• Therefore, option C correctly evaluates the statements.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Queer reading often examines contradictions within apparently stable identity categories.
Reason: Such categories are produced through norms and exclusions rather than grounded in timeless essences.
Reason: Such categories are produced through norms and exclusions rather than grounded in timeless essences.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because queer reading investigates instability within categories of gender and sexuality.
• The Reason is correct because identities are historically produced through norms, repetitions and exclusions.
• This constructed character explains why identity categories can contain tensions and contradictions.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because identities are historically produced through norms, repetitions and exclusions.
• This constructed character explains why identity categories can contain tensions and contradictions.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Hélène Cixous
2. Luce Irigaray
3. Judith Butler
4. Kimberlé Crenshaw
List II
I. Gender performativity
II. Intersectionality
III. Écriture féminine
IV. Critique of phallocentric sexual difference
List I
1. Hélène Cixous
2. Luce Irigaray
3. Judith Butler
4. Kimberlé Crenshaw
List II
I. Gender performativity
II. Intersectionality
III. Écriture féminine
IV. Critique of phallocentric sexual difference
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hélène Cixous matches III because she is closely associated with écriture féminine.
• Luce Irigaray matches IV because she critiques phallocentric accounts of sexual difference.
• Judith Butler matches I because she develops the theory of gender performativity.
• Kimberlé Crenshaw matches II because she coined the term intersectionality.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-II.
• Luce Irigaray matches IV because she critiques phallocentric accounts of sexual difference.
• Judith Butler matches I because she develops the theory of gender performativity.
• Kimberlé Crenshaw matches II because she coined the term intersectionality.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-II.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced intersectionality to explain:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Intersectionality explains how structures such as racism, sexism and class inequality interact.
• It rejects the assumption that one axis of identity can always be analysed separately from others.
• Crenshaw initially developed the concept through legal analysis of Black women's experiences.
• The framework has become central to feminist, race, queer and cultural studies.
• It rejects the assumption that one axis of identity can always be analysed separately from others.
• Crenshaw initially developed the concept through legal analysis of Black women's experiences.
• The framework has become central to feminist, race, queer and cultural studies.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Intersectionality is associated with Kimberlé Crenshaw, not Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
• Sedgwick is a major theorist of queer reading and sexuality.
• Cixous is correctly matched with The Laugh of the Medusa.
• Irigaray and Butler are correctly matched with their respective works and concepts.
• Sedgwick is a major theorist of queer reading and sexuality.
• Cixous is correctly matched with The Laugh of the Medusa.
• Irigaray and Butler are correctly matched with their respective works and concepts.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Écriture féminine challenges phallocentric writing practices.
2. Gender performativity means that gender is freely chosen without social constraint.
3. Queer theory questions stable sexual identities.
4. Intersectionality studies overlapping structures of power.
1. Écriture féminine challenges phallocentric writing practices.
2. Gender performativity means that gender is freely chosen without social constraint.
3. Queer theory questions stable sexual identities.
4. Intersectionality studies overlapping structures of power.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because écriture féminine resists phallocentric language and hierarchy.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because performativity is constrained by social norms and is not unrestricted personal choice.
• Statement 3 is correct because queer theory destabilizes fixed sexual categories.
• Statement 4 is correct because intersectionality analyses interacting systems such as race, class and gender.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because performativity is constrained by social norms and is not unrestricted personal choice.
• Statement 3 is correct because queer theory destabilizes fixed sexual categories.
• Statement 4 is correct because intersectionality analyses interacting systems such as race, class and gender.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A novel presents gender as natural, but its characters repeatedly learn and rehearse different gestures, clothing codes and speech patterns. Which concept best explains this contradiction?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Repeated gestures, clothing codes and speech patterns show gender being produced through social practice.
• Butler's concept of performativity explains how repetition creates the appearance of natural identity.
• The contradiction exposes gender as constituted rather than simply expressed.
• The other concepts do not directly address the production of gendered identity.
• Butler's concept of performativity explains how repetition creates the appearance of natural identity.
• The contradiction exposes gender as constituted rather than simply expressed.
• The other concepts do not directly address the production of gendered identity.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A critic analyses how a text's apparent opposition between heterosexual and homosexual identities depends on unstable definitions and concealed overlap. This is an example of:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Queer reading examines how normative sexual categories are produced and destabilized.
• It often reveals that apparently opposed identities depend upon one another.
• Concealed overlap and definitional instability challenge the binary's claim to naturalness.
• The approach focuses on textual and cultural constructions of sexuality rather than biography alone.
• It often reveals that apparently opposed identities depend upon one another.
• Concealed overlap and definitional instability challenge the binary's claim to naturalness.
• The approach focuses on textual and cultural constructions of sexuality rather than biography alone.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which statement best describes the relation among race, class, gender and sexuality in intersectional analysis?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Intersectionality examines how multiple systems of power operate together.
• Their combined effects cannot always be understood by simply adding separate analyses of race, class, gender or sexuality.
• Institutions and representations may position people differently at these intersections.
• The framework therefore resists single-axis explanations.
• Their combined effects cannot always be understood by simply adding separate analyses of race, class, gender or sexuality.
• Institutions and representations may position people differently at these intersections.
• The framework therefore resists single-axis explanations.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A feminist reading focuses on how poetic rhythm, bodily imagery and disrupted syntax resist a rigid masculine order of expression. Which approach is most relevant?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Écriture féminine emphasizes bodily expression, rhythm, plurality and disruption of phallocentric language.
• The described poetic features challenge rigid and hierarchical forms of expression.
• Cixous and related theorists connect such writing with resistance to fixed sexual identity.
• The other approaches do not most directly explain this linguistic and bodily emphasis.
• The described poetic features challenge rigid and hierarchical forms of expression.
• Cixous and related theorists connect such writing with resistance to fixed sexual identity.
• The other approaches do not most directly explain this linguistic and bodily emphasis.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Assertion: Intersectional criticism may reject a feminist interpretation that treats all women as similarly positioned.
Reason: Women can experience gender through different relations of race, class, sexuality and other structures of power.
Reason: Women can experience gender through different relations of race, class, sexuality and other structures of power.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because intersectionality challenges universal accounts of women's experience.
• The Reason is correct because gender is lived through interacting structures such as race, class and sexuality.
• These intersections may produce distinct forms of privilege and disadvantage.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because gender is lived through interacting structures such as race, class and sexuality.
• These intersections may produce distinct forms of privilege and disadvantage.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A critic studies how a novel regulates respectable femininity differently for wealthy white women, working-class women and women of colour. Which method is most appropriate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Intersectional analysis examines how gender is shaped differently by race and class.
• The novel's unequal standards of respectability reveal overlapping systems of power.
• A universal model of womanhood would obscure these differences.
• The method connects textual representation with social hierarchy and institutional privilege.
• The novel's unequal standards of respectability reveal overlapping systems of power.
• A universal model of womanhood would obscure these differences.
• The method connects textual representation with social hierarchy and institutional privilege.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes the combined significance of écriture féminine, queer theory and intersectionality?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Écriture féminine challenges phallocentric language and seeks plural forms of bodily expression.
• Queer theory questions stable gender and sexual categories and examines normativity.
• Intersectionality analyses the interaction of gender and sexuality with race, class and other structures.
• Together, these approaches reveal identity as embodied, discursive, relational and shaped by power.
• Queer theory questions stable gender and sexual categories and examines normativity.
• Intersectionality analyses the interaction of gender and sexuality with race, class and other structures.
• Together, these approaches reveal identity as embodied, discursive, relational and shaped by power.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Hélène Cixous సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The Laugh of the Medusa సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. A disruptive mode of writing that resists phallocentric structures సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Luce Irigaray సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. A symbolic order that treats masculine experience as the universal norm సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Julia Kristeva సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Rhythm, drives and disruptions within signification సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Gender Trouble సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Gender is constituted through repeated acts governed by social norms సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Performance may be a specific act, whereas performativity names the reiterative process that produces identity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. The naturalness and stability of normative sexual and gender categories సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-II సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. How different systems of power overlap in shaping lived experience సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick — intersectionality సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Gender performativity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Queer reading సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Their effects can interact and produce experiences not reducible to any single category సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. Écriture féminine సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Intersectional feminist analysis సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. They study how language, norms and overlapping power relations shape gendered and sexual identities సమాధానం: C.