An American obsession Book

While there are a few interesting nuggets (Margaret Meads views on homosexuality, some physicians back in the day were way more liberal you'd think, the proliferation of "pansy acts" in the 1920s were frequented by the well-to-do, and the transgender persons in some Native American tribes)this read like a thesis turned into a book. Also the cover is awkward to say nothing of some of the research photos on the inside.