"It's a wonderful thing to see either a man or a woman who has come into the full acceptance of exactly who and what they are,"

Indeed :) The photo was subtitled something like "a local beauty" and the book was a kind of anthropological picture book for kids called 'the book of mankind' or some-such. I guess what I was getting at was I discovered early on that our local notions of femininity, beauty etc. were not the only ones out there, and that they were very different in other places. Today, I could explain to myself then that ideas about gender and and what signifies 'masculinity' and 'femininity', are culturally determined constructs.