key thinkers about sex and gencer

• Who argued that gender roles are socially constructed from a young age?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• What did Gilman believe about women's socialization?

  Women think themselves naturally frail
• Who perceived social construction of gender roles as beginning in childhood?

  Kate Millett and bell hooks
• What is the significance of the family unit in gender role construction according to Millett and hooks?

  • Gender roles are not natural
  • Gender roles are not inevitable