```In summary, women were not the only ones that were socially conditioned into their own gender roles, but also males were and are. And within that social conditioning, there is a link between femininity, masculinity and biology. Women were subjugated within these roles for many years, and only recently became less so. These novels show the in depth nature of how these relationships occurred and the very nature of male and female behaviour. Overall, Simone De Beauvoir may be right in most aspects, having a society that conditions one into becoming one with either more female or male socially accepted norms, though those accepted norms are tied to a biological nature that one cannot change at birth.```
