Summary
SELF-MADE MAN: ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY INTO MANHOOD AND BACK AGAIN, by Norah Vincent, Viking, 290 pages, $24.95.
Using the prototypes practiced by John Howard Griffin in "Black Like Me" and Barbara Ehrenreich in "Nickel and Dimed," Norah Vincent changed her name to Ned and her appearance cosmetically to try to "pass" as a man for 18 months. The result is the book "Self-Made Man."See the full content of this document
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Gender Study Brave, Intriguing
Remarkably successful most of the time, she concluded that it is very hard to be a man -- even in "a man's world."
It was also remarkably hard for her t...See the full content of this document
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