The dialectical nature of male aggression and female passivity discussed in Counter-Revolutions and Revolt inspired this thinker’s critique of white women’s contribution to female liberation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Women, Race, and Class. This thinker’s activism is closely related to her philosophical works, such as one debating whether a certain location is “obsolete.”
ANSWER: Angela Davis
[10m] Give this person who titles a poem that depicts Ennui as a “refined monster” that smokes a hookah pipe. That poem ends by calling this person a “- Hypocrite ... - my fellow, - my brother!”
ANSWER: the reader [accept “To the Reader” or “Au Lecteur”]
[10e] Angela Davis posits that “Gender Structures” these locations through the state-sanctioning of sexual violence. Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon is one of these locations.
ANSWER: prisons [or jails]
[10e] “To the Reader” is the first poem of this decadent collection by Charles Baudelaire, which includes sections titled “Spleen and Ideal” and “Parisian Scenes.”
ANSWER: Les Fleurs du mal [or The Flowers of Evil]
[10m] The radicalism of Davis’ intersectional Marxism responded to the “Great Refusal” of new forms of social control written by this thinker, her doctoral advisor, who authored One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.
ANSWER: Herbert Marcuse (Counter-Revolutions and Revolt, mentioned in the lead-in, is by Marcuse.)
[10h] “To the Reader” appears after a dedication of “unhealthy flowers” to this “impeccable poet” and “perfect magician of French letters.” This author of the novel Mademoiselle de Maupin coined the term “art for art’s sake.”
ANSWER: Théophile Gautier [or Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier]
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