Exam Details
| Subject | Postmodernism And Gender | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | P.G. Diploma in Women's and Gender Studies | |
| Department | School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | December, 2016 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
l. Explain how Gayle Rubin's Critical feminist reading of Levi Strauss, Freud and Lacan enables her to formulate her notion of the sex/gender system.
2. Discuss some key concepts of Althusser's theories and feminist responses to these.
3. Discuss Derrida's essay "Structure, Sign and Play" as a Critique of Western Philosophy.
4. Explain the relationship between Women and Caste with the help of some examples from post modern literature and cinema.
5. Do you see the relationship between feminism and post modernism as an enabling one or as one of duplicity? Argue convincingly in favour of the position you have chosen.
6. Using examples of poems by any two of the following poets -Neruda, Plath, Rich, Walker, Lorde, Dharker. Discuss the salient aspects of post modern poetry with special attention to gender issues.
7. What do you understand by "discursive gendered and racial identities"? Explain this notion in the context of either Khatibi's or Ben Jelloun's works.
8. Write short notes on any four:
Bilingue
Cixous "Laugh of the Medusa"
Sign, Signifier, Signified
Foucault and 'The Ethical Turn'
Bell hooks and black feminism
2. Discuss some key concepts of Althusser's theories and feminist responses to these.
3. Discuss Derrida's essay "Structure, Sign and Play" as a Critique of Western Philosophy.
4. Explain the relationship between Women and Caste with the help of some examples from post modern literature and cinema.
5. Do you see the relationship between feminism and post modernism as an enabling one or as one of duplicity? Argue convincingly in favour of the position you have chosen.
6. Using examples of poems by any two of the following poets -Neruda, Plath, Rich, Walker, Lorde, Dharker. Discuss the salient aspects of post modern poetry with special attention to gender issues.
7. What do you understand by "discursive gendered and racial identities"? Explain this notion in the context of either Khatibi's or Ben Jelloun's works.
8. Write short notes on any four:
Bilingue
Cixous "Laugh of the Medusa"
Sign, Signifier, Signified
Foucault and 'The Ethical Turn'
Bell hooks and black feminism
Other Question Papers
Departments
- Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
- Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
- National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
- School of Agriculture (SOA)
- School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
- School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
- School of Education (SOE)
- School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
- School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)
- School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)
- School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
- School of Health Science (SOHS)
- School of Humanities (SOH)
- School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
- School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)
- School of Law (SOL)
- School of Management Studies (SOMS)
- School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts (SOPVA)
- School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
- School of Sciences (SOS)
- School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
- School of Social Work (SOSW)
- School of Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSM)
- School of Tourism &Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSSM)
- School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
- School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)
- Staff Training & Research in Distance Education (STRIDE)
Subjects
- Constructing Gender Through Arts and Media
- Gender And Life Narratives
- Gender And Power
- Gendered Bodies And Sexualities
- Gendered Nation
- Postmodernism And Gender
- Research Methods
- Theories And Concepts In Women's And Gender Studies
- Women And Political Process
- Women And Social Structure
- Women In The Economy