After a work trip to Albania this spring I ordered this:

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Beco...1231379&sr=8-1

Fascinating read about women who for various reasons "become" men, completely adopt their male role and are accepted and revered by society as men. Well worth the read, not least for the insight into the whole idea of gender.

And with a couple of hairraising quotes:
"Mens control of women is also outlined (in the Kanun (law)): "the parents of his wife give the groom a cartridge as protection against two acts for which a woman may be shot in the back a) for adultery; b) for betrayal of hospitality"