\[ **BT: [[gender]]** ] --- # femininity There is not one way to ‘do’ femininity. It is a social and cultural construct. [[Per Thesander, ‘the beingness of Womanhood and the performance of Femininity are not particular birthrights. … women and performers of femininity must dutifully learn and produce this beingness and these performances in order to be legible as women’.]][^1] [^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, [https://doi.org/10.38055/FS040106](https://doi.org/10.38055/FS040106).