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    <body><![CDATA[I...really like ethnographies. And gender studies. And, okay, this was a really excellently-done ethnography that has some obvious problems (&quot;transgender&quot;?), but is super engaging.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kulick's honesty is probably the thing that makes this not just an anthropological tract but an excellent piece of non-fiction writing.  Kulick is honest with the travesti with whom he lives, and he's honest with us about his life and how it might affect his perspective on the unusual situation in w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1300501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[touching book. Read it for a Women's Studies course in college and just really felt for these &quot;women.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written ethnography, anthropology lovers will fall in love with this book. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome book.  Anthropology of Gender and sexuality professor wrote this, spent time in a travesti brothel in Brazil. Fascinating.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book looks so interesting i cant wait to get my hands on it!!]]></body>
    
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