This book tackles delicate issues along the difficult learning path regarding gender. It seeks to trace from childhood, family, and prevailing social conditioning how a persons very self-identity and attitudes toward gender issues can be shaped and marked throughout ones entire life. Some of the consequences described in the book are what might be described as the resulting inner demons or beasties and bogeymen that lurk within the inner soul and are a source both of confusion to the victim and something that tends to be locked safely yet restrictively away from others. Thus, the two key...