[ **up: [[Gender]]** ] --- # Femininity [[2025-0221. 'Women and performers of femininity must dutifully learn and produce this beingness ... in order to be legible as women, particularly in a context which... surveils the body and its iterations as objects and abjects.'|’Marianne Thesander writes in The Feminine Ideal that the beingness of Womanhood and the performance of Femininity are not particular birthrights. Therefore, women and performers of femininity must dutifully learn and produce this beingness and these performances in order to be legible as women, particularly in a cultural context which historically and contemporarily surveils the body and its iterations of objects and abjects.’]][^1] --- - *See also:* [[Beauty standards#Beauty standards – Feminine|Beauty standards – feminine]] [^1]: Ev Delafose, ’[[Delafose. ‘(Trans)Feminine History’, 2022.|(Trans)Feminine History: A History of Feminine (De)Normalization]]’, *Fashion Studies*, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022, p. 7.