Self-Made Man
One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
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4.1 • 64 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man.
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), Vincent 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 joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed 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.
Customer Reviews
A powerful personal stoary that verifies what men have been saying.
There are few things as impacting as personal experience; and while personal anecdotal evidence isn’t wholly objective, it’s representative enough to verify the conclusions of many others’ perceptions.
I commend Ms. Vincent’s efforts to understand “men” and “masculinity” from the inside out. I’m also grateful she recovered after her experience. This book ought to be required reading in every Womens Studies 101 course to establish a baseline for women to understand “male privilege”, and how mythical it really is.
"Self-Made Man” ultimately illustrates the “shackles" of masculinity are “merely" different in nature compared to the “shackles” of femininity, and not absent as some would have everone believe.