Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man, (Paperback)

from vlcraven

An enlightening account of what it really means to be a man in our society-the good and the bad. This book goes on my list of books everyone over 16 should read. I expected Vincent to be surprised by how not-green it is on the other side, but I was the one whose eyes were most opened. She passed ...

from bobbieharv

A journalist/lesbian becomes a man for a year to see what it's like to be a man, and what men are like when women aren't around (pretty scary sometimes). The chapters where men and women are most different were the most interesting, e.g. when she went to strip clubs (pretty horrifying and misogyn...

from bobbieharv

A journalist/lesbian becomes a man for a year to see what it's like to be a man, and what men are like when women aren't around (pretty scary sometimes). The chapters where men and women are most different were the most interesting, e.g. when she went to strip clubs (pretty horrifying and misogyn...

from Lilac_Lily01

Norah Vincent lived for 1 1/2 years the life of a man. In a drag costume she joined an all male bowling club, went to work in a high pressure sales job, dated women and even participated in a men's self-help group. In "Self-Made Man" she shares what she discovered about the other sex while workin...

from jen.e.moore

I was hoping for an insightful analysis of the way men's and women's treatment differs in the world. I got a lot of sexism, unchallenged assumptions, and unpleasantness. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed.Vincent falls prey to one of the classic failure modes of ethnography: she hated d...