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:

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

2. '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.

3. 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.

4. The denigration of working-class women and women of colour often centres on their perceived failure to embody feminine beauty.

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

The correct answer is 3.

To understand why sentence 3 is the odd one out, let us analyze the thematic connections between the sentences to reconstruct the coherent paragraph.

Sentence 1 introduces a distinction between "being a woman" and "being feminine," stating that outward appearance was used to display inner qualities based on this distinction.
Sentence 5 defines these two terms further: "woman" is a biological category, whereas "femininity" is a process of becoming a specific kind of woman. Therefore, sentence 5 naturally follows sentence 1.
Sentence 2 builds on this by explaining how this process was realized in practice: "appearance" became a signifier of conduct, and conformity to the feminine ideal was measured by how well women used fashion and beauty tools. This connects directly back to "displaying one's inner qualities through outward appearance" in sentence 1.
Sentence 4 provides a specific consequence or application of this ideal: the denigration of working-class women and women of color centers on their perceived failure to embody this very "feminine beauty" described in sentence 2.

Together, sentences 1, 5, 2, and 4 form a coherent paragraph explaining the historical/theoretical construction of femininity through outward appearance and the tools of beauty.
Sentence 3, while sharing some thematic elements like "race and class" and "ways to be a woman," focuses specifically on the "makeover-centric media" and its modern, subtle or not-so-subtle messaging. This shifts the focus from the core conceptual distinction and historical definition of femininity/appearance outlined in the other sentences, making it the odd one out.