Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man Paperback - 2007
by Vincent, Norah
- Used
Narrated with exquisite insight, humor, and empathy, the author uses her firsthand experience--the 18 months she masqueraded as a man--to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity.
Description
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Details
- Title Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
- Author Vincent, Norah
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2007-01-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # J11C-01257
- ISBN 9780143038702 / 0143038702
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Sex role, Masculinity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007069906
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Norah spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren’t around. As Ned, she joins a bowling team, takes a high-octane sales job, goes on dates with women (and men), visits strip clubs, and even manages to infiltrate a monastery and a men’s therapy group. At once thought- provoking and pure fun to read, Self-Made Man is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism.
