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Year

CAT 2020

Section

Verbal

Topic

Odd One Out

Difficulty

Medium

Question

Slot-3

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:

A. The logic of displaying one’s inner qualities through outward appearance was based on a distinction between being a woman and being feminine.

B. 'Appearance' became a signifier of conduct - to look was to be and conformity to the feminine ideal was measured by how well women could use the tools of the fashion and beauty industries.

C. The makeover-centric media sets out subtly and not-so-subtly, ‘good’ and ‘bad’ ways to be a woman, layering these over inequalities of race and class.

D. The denigration of working-class women and women of colour often centres on their perceived failure to embody feminine beauty. E. ‘Woman’ was considered a biological category, but femininity was a ‘process’ by which women became specific kinds of women.

E. ‘Woman’ was considered a biological category, but femininity was a ‘process’ by which women became specific kinds of women.

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