If anyone wants to read a great book about gender roles and the personal struggle of a hermaphrodite, born that way because of a mutated gene, living childhood as a man before becoming a women, I highly recommend "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. It is a fictional book (a Pulitzer Prize winner actually) but very factual and was even praised by the medical community for it's description of intersex people and the struggle they face.
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"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than to find, as quickly as possible, someone to worship."
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
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