UGC NET/JRF EXAM, June-2021 WOMEN’S STUDIES

Total Questions: 100

51. Which of the following are correct about women's studies as an academic discipline?

(a) Analyse social and cultural construction of Gender
(b) Promotes androcentrism
(c) Aims to ensure more power to women
(d) Challenges the male centred knowledge

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (a), (c), (d) only

52. Which are the 'Sex' related facts below you consider most appropriate?

(a) women give birth to babies, men do not
(b) girls are gentle : boys are rough
(c) doctors are men : nurses are women
(d) Boy's voices break at puberty, girls' do not

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. (a) and (d) only

53. Gender budgeting scheme was launched in 2008 to achieve gender main streaming and gender perspective in policy formulation, resource allocation and implementation

(a) To ensure financial outlays and policy commitments have gender perspective
(b) It was specifically targeted expenditure for women and girls and pro-women allocations
(c) To provide income tax benefit to women
(d) to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girl children

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a) and (b) only

54. Name the feminist activists who tried to charge the legal approaches to pornography by framing it as civil rights violation

(a) Catherine Mackinnon
(b) Andrea Dworkin
(c) Mary Daly
(d) Julia Kristeva

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b) only

55. Hermeneutics as a theory and methodology:

(a) Is the study of interpretation and the theory and practice of interpretation
(b) Is derived from religious studies and linguistics, traditional hermeneutics such as biblical hermeneutics
(c) Modern hermeneutics is developed by Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer
(d) Contemporary hermeneutis is developed by the Brazilian Augusto Boal and Paulo Friere

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b), (c) only

56. The ILO Resolution 2014 regarding the expansion of the definition of Women's work, recognized, unpaid work performed by women within household in the following

(a) self care works (personal grooming, hygiene etc)
(b) all work that do not involve any form of production of goods or services
(c) activities that cannot be performed by another person on one's own behalf (own activities for recreation learning etc)
(d) additional work performed in fields

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (c) only

57. Which of the following are techniques of female sterilisation?

(a) Minilaparotomy
(b) Laparoscopic
(c) Vasectomy
(d) Vacuum aspiration

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a) and (b) only

58. Main Reasons for women's work being largely excluded from statistical data are:

(a) cultural construction of women's work
(b) invisibility of women's work
(c) sensitivity of the investigators
(d) difficulties in measuring women's work

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (a), (b), (d) only

59. Who argued that Western feminists constructed third world women as a monolithic group reduced to being the victims of patriarchal cultures and traditions?

(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Gayatri Spivak
(c) Chandra Talpade Mohanty
(d) Flavia Agnes

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. (b), (c) only

60. Which of the following is true about Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes (CCTS)?

(a) CCT schemes allocate cash directly to poor house holds
(b) CCT aims at reduction of poverty
(c) CCT aims at social empowerment
(d) Beneficiaries have to fulfill conditions like health checkup, Immunization, school attendance etc

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b), (d) only