Final exam

Question 1

Oedipus Complex

Answer 1

A desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex; leads to a choice of sexual partner who resembles one’s parent

Question 2

Thanatos

Answer 2

Death drive

Question 3

Freud’s Major Theory

Answer 3

Id (inner child), Ego (devil), Superego (angel) make up our personality and mind

Question 4

Lacan’s Major Theory

Answer 4

The real, the imaginary, mirror stage

Question 5

First wave of feminism

Answer 5

Right to vote

Question 6

Second wave of feminism

Answer 6

Right to work, right to not get married, and right to an abortion

Question 7

Third wave of feminism

Answer 7

“Can do” feminism; DIY

Question 8

Marxist/Socialist Feminism argues that to end oppression of women, we must end…

Answer 8

Capitalism (class oppression

Question 9

Liberal Feminism insists on equality in the…

Answer 9

Public sphere (education, pay, ending job segregation based on sex, better working conditions)

Question 10

Major Feminist Approaches to Literature include

Answer 10

What role does the work play for women’s literary history/literary tradition

Question 11

Queer Theory utilizes _______________ theory covered in class

Answer 11

Post structuralism

Question 12

LGBT studies is mostly closely aligned with what concept previously covered (think about postmodern belief)

Answer 12

Metanarrative

Question 13

In the video with Judith Butler what does a passerby ask out of the car window?

Answer 13

Are you a lesbian?

Question 14

What is the main concept in Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble?

Answer 14

Gender is taught/performed

Question 15

Postcolonialism is the study of

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Oppressed people yall

Question 16

The three stages of post colonialism includes

Answer 16

1. Awareness
2. Political autonomy
3. Hybridity

Question 17

Diaspora

Answer 17

Forced migration; a culture that is dispersed

Question 18

Hybridity

Answer 18

Cross-cultural exchange

Question 19

Mimicry

Answer 19

Act of passive resistance, not losing yourself in it

Question 20

Unhomeliness

Answer 20

Not at home

Question 21

Eco criticism is the response to

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The urgent issues of today; ethics

Question 22

Eco criticism is how nature is

Answer 22

Represented in literature

Question 23

What is the definition of the uncanny?

Answer 23

The familiar becoming unfamiliar & is scary

Question 24

The sandman…

Answer 24

Stabbing out eyes of naughty children

Question 25

How is the film Coraline a re-telling of the uncanny?

Answer 25

When she falls asleep she finds a world of people with their eyes poked out and they are filled with sand; the family is like hers

Question 26

When Coraline opens the door, what does she find?

Answer 26

The tunnel, she is "reborn" in the new world

Question 27

What does Coraline discover after several days of going through the door?

Answer 27

They their eyes are filled with sand and they want to do the same to her

Question 28

Can-do girls delay _________

Answer 28

Motherhood

Question 29

What does Harris say is at work in dividing girls between "can-do" and "at-risk"? The division is to monitor behavior in society

Answer 29

Economic inequality/social inequality; poor girls are at risk and middle/upper class are can do

Question 30

Girlpower has become a

Answer 30

Market

Question 31

How do Richards and Baumgardner define activism?

Answer 31

Their activism is doing the little things; everyday feminism

Question 32

What are goals of the 3rd wave feminism? (The 3rd wave of feminism was a response to the perceived backlash of the second wave

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Bringing down the double standard; reproductive rights; access to healthcare

Question 33

The main argument in this video is that (killing me softly)

Answer 33

The media specifically advertisements sexualize women since 1975

Question 34

What type of evidence is provided?

Answer 34

Advertisements throughout magazines, websites, billboards; diverse advertisements

Question 35

What types of evidence are provided here? (virtuous cuts)

Answer 35

Personal accounts from women who have had it done

Question 36

Patriarchy does not fully explain ________

Answer 36

Why this practice persists

Question 37

What are the reasons women give for maintaining the practice of female circumcision?

Answer 37

Cleanliness, beauty, culture

Question 38

Smith's (toward a black feminist criticism) main argument is that tough feminism as a scholarly enterprise is more and more possible _______ ________ are being excluded

Answer 38

Black women

Question 39

What types of readings are excluded in black feminist criticism and why?

Answer 39

Queer readings

Question 40

(What is this thing called queer?) | Smith defines Queer as an __________ approach and LGBT an ____________ approach

Answer 40

Confrontational or action (Queer) | Assimilation (LGBT)

Question 41

(capitalism and Gay Identity) | Some of the myths D'Emilio covers include

Answer 41

Homosexual identity is not ahistorical; homosexual identity emerged in the 19th century; identity and practices are not the same thing

Question 42

Gay identity (not gay practice) emerged alongside what historical moment?

Answer 42

Capitalism (WWII)

Question 43

Survival of LGBT individuals depends on social __________ that will _______ ________ __________

Answer 43

Services | Provide personal autonomy

Question 44

(Trumpet) | A narratological approach to this novel might include attention to

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How each chapter has a unique narrator

Question 45

How does Millie describe her pictures in the newspaper?

Answer 45

She doesn't look like herself

Question 46

A psychoanalytic reading of Colman might include

Answer 46

Stages of grief

Question 47

Reading Millie and Joss as a lesbian couple excludes what analysis?

Answer 47

Their own definitions of themselves

Question 48

The man who fills out the death certificate fills out the certificate with what name and what sex?

Answer 48

Joss Moody, female

Question 49

What might be at stake in the 1st person and 3rd person chapters

Answer 49

1st person: you tell your story | 3rd person: someone tells your story

Question 50

What does Sophie not recognize about herself in developing Joss's narrative?

Answer 50

She uses clothes to present the person she wants the world to see

Question 51

Ghost country and ghost story - what do you make of the "ghosts" in the novel?

Answer 51

Narratives and countries are linked; these stories aren't being told

Question 52

What might a Marxist analysis of Joss' death include?

Answer 52

His death is a means for profit (Sophie and the record company are profiting from it)

Question 53

("Shooting an Elephant") The narrator experiences guilt that he equates with

Answer 53

Suffering of the oppressed

Question 54

The elephant's foot does what to a mans body

Answer 54

Rips his skin off

Question 55

When the elephant dies, what changes about the elephant? This could be a metaphor for what?

Answer 55

The lines on his body change; metaphor for the British empire shrinking

Question 56

("On Seeing England for the First Time") | What phase of post colonialism is this?

Answer 56

Hybridity

Question 57

("On Seeing England for the First Time") | What are some of the acts of conquering?

Answer 57

Products, breakfast, dress, ribbon, school

Question 58

When Kincaid sees England for the first time, what does she see?

Answer 58

That it is ugly (people, weather)

Question 59

(Harper High) | Everything we know about gangs

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Is wrong/throw out the window

Question 60

If you want to know who belongs to what gang

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Get out a map

Question 61

The one Neutron we hear about does what to remain neutral

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Stays inside at all costs; starts a Bible study

Question 62

Devonte's mother tells him to

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Kill himself

Question 63

The homecoming dance is

Answer 63

Not cancelled; safe

Question 64

Thomas is indicative of what statistic in Chicago?

Answer 64

Eyewitness - 82% of all murder is public

Question 65

What is wrong with Crystal towards the end of the episode?

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Stress; lost her ability to cope or be positive

Question 66

The text/interpretations of the text are not about what the author intended, but rather:

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What the author did not intend; looking for the author's unconscious/subconscious mind or thinking

Question 67

Why does the unnamed kid take two cookies?

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He is hungry; he didn't have a home to eat breakfast at

Question 68

Restorative justice

Answer 68

Repair harm and not punish

Question 69

Why did the teachers respond differently than students?

Answer 69

The teachers did not live in the community (white) the students did live there (black)

Question 70

Thoreau and to the woods

Answer 70

Love deliberately

Question 71

An ecological reading of "White Heron" might include

Answer 71

Narrators experience with animals, why she is upset