Sex and Power MCQ 1

What is feminism?

Feminism is a democratic endeavor that made a relationship with state and societal power by arguing for democratic, economic, sexual and racial freedom

What is the critique of feminist ‘wave’ terminology?

Feminist wave terminology oversimplifies a complex and multiply constituted global history of feminism into four waves which gives the impression that only specific types of feminism were happening

What is the basis of the 19th amendment?

To end discrimination towards voters based on sex

What is the body?

The body is an embodied situation rather than a fixed, biological fact

How did humans develop an overbite?

The overbite developed from using cutlery such as forks and knives, and chopsticks

The body is an assemblage because …

1) The body is folded into certain shapes or identities to function in certain ways AND 2) the body is assembled through its material and ideological surroundings

What is biopolitics

Politics of the body

What is the relationship between sex and gender?

Sex/gender are “absolutely political categories” since they maintain “an eminently political binary articulation, the product of oppression, just like racial difference

What is dichotomous thinking?

It is a method of thinking where oppositions render categories possible, categories create an order of things, and hence, a coherent order of things.

What is the relationship between the rational and the normative

Ordering things gives them a rational coherence. The rational underlies the normative

What is the fold?

Rational orders tie opposites into a normative relationship which is called doubling or the fold

What does queer thinking emphasize?

Queer thinking is intersectional, rhizomatic, and emphasizes nonothering, non-violent relationality

What does Linnaeus include in the category of ‘homo sapiens’ ?

Race

What did Linnaeus believe about truth?

In natural science, the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation

What is Aristotle’s great chain of being?

It divided all matter into hierarchy

What did Risley (1915) believe about ignorance?

It deprives European science of material

Colonialism used…

Gender and sex to order and hierarchize people

Coloniality is …

Long-standing patterns of power that emerged as a result of colonialism but survive its administrative end.

Linneaus believed strongly in

Naming and identification

Wha were the ‘four races of man’ identified by Linneaus?

Caucasian, Negro, Mongolian, and American Indian