Loyola College B.A. English April 2012 Gender Studies Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 3501 – GENDER STUDIES

 

 

 

Date : 26-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

Answer any SIX of the following in about 250 words each:                                       (6×10 =60 marks)

 

  1. Account for the achievements of the first and second wave feminism.
  2. Define feminism? Critically examine the challenges faced by feminist movements.
  3. How does stereotyping contribute to women’s oppression?
  4. Trace the major influences in Indian women’s movement.
  5. Compare and contrast liberal and radical feminism.
  6. Discuss the ideology of Marxist feminism.
  7. Cyber feminism has become a significant field in contemporary cultural practice.
  8. Write a short essay on the various aspects of Post – feminism

 

PART – B

 

Answer any TWO of the following in about 250 words each:                              (2×10 =20 marks)

 

  1. Comment on Kamala Das’s attitude towards patriarchal society in “Introduction”.
  2. Search for female identity is the central theme in Adrienne Rich’s poem. Substantiate.
  3. Giovanni’spoems record the life struggles of being a black woman. Do you agree?

PART – C

 

Answer any ONE of the following in about 400 – 500 words each:                      (1×20 =20 marks)

 

  1. Enumerate the key tenets of feminist theories.
  2. How do feminists redefine womanhood?
  3. Critically examine the woman’s experience in the following extract from Taslima Nasrin’s poem “Happy Marriage”

 

He wanted my heart under his control
so that I would love him:
in my lonely house at night,
sleepless, full of anxiety,
clutching at the window grille,
I would wait for him and sob,
My tears rolling down, I would bake homemade bread;
so that I would drink, as if they were ambrosia,
the filthy liquids of his polygynous body.
So that, loving him, I would melt like wax,
not turning my yees toward any other man,
I would give proof of my chastity all my life.
So that, loving him
on some moonlit night I would commit suicide
in a fit of ecstasy.

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Loyola College B.A. English Nov 2012 Gender Studies Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 3501 – GENDER STUDIES

 

 

 

Date : 05/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

Answer any six of the following in about 250 words each:                                               (6×10=60)

  1. What is cyber feminism?
  2. Define gender studies.
  3. Write a note on Radical feminism.
  4. Discuss the participation of women in the Indian struggle for independence.
  5. How did Marxist feminism help women?
  6. What did first and second wave feminism achieve?
  7. Trace the effects of liberal feminism.
  8. How is Post feminist theory relevant today?

 

PART – B

 

Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each:                                                 (2×10=20)

 

  1. Why does the speaker have to go egotripping in Nikki Giovanni’s poem?
  2. What are the problems faced by women in Adrienne Rich’s “Snapshots of a Daughter-in law”?
  3. Attempt a feminist reading of Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”

 

PART – C

 

Answer any one of the following in about 400 to 500 words:                                          (1×20=20)

 

  1. List the various issues about gender faced by the contemporary society according the poems

prescribed for study.

  1. What are the achievements of the feminist movement and list the challenges that the movement

faces today?

  1. Examine the gender concerns in the following poem:
      Woman Work
I’ve got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I’ve got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
‘Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You’re all that I can call my own.

Maya Angelou

 

 

 

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