D. highlighting the context in which women may choose to embrace femininity’s restrictions
Explanation:
Answer D
Correct. In the final paragraph, the author first concedes that femininity can be an enjoyable form of personal expression but then asserts that femininity is primarily attractive because of the “competitive edge that [it] seems to promise.” In doing so, she emphasizes that women who choose to embrace the art of femininity do so within a social context that punishes those who “fail at the feminine difference,” one of the primary claims that she advanced in the passage as a whole.