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    <body><![CDATA[A transphobic tirade masquerading as feminist adventure story? That was my first thought of what to say about this book (to highlight its most serious problems), but of course there's more to it than just that. <br/><br/>Vincent (a  &quot;conservative lesbian&quot; according to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://answers.com">answers.com</a>) is a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/231530">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (<em>Black Like Me</em>) and Barbara Ehrenreich   (<em>Nickel and Dimed</em>), Norah Vincent absorbed a cultural experience and reported back on   what she observed incognito. For more than a year and a half she ventured into the world as   Ned, with an ever-present five o’clock shadow, a crew cut, wire-rim glasses, and her own size   111/2 shoes—a perfect disguise that enabled her to observe the world of men as an insider. The   result is a sympathetic, shrewd, and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism that’s destined   to challenge preconceptions and attract enormous attention.  <p>  With her buddies on the bowling league she enjoyed the rough and rewarding embrace of male   camaraderie undetectable to an outsider. A stint in a high-octane sales job taught her the gut-  wrenching pressures endured by men who would do anything to succeed. She frequented sex   clubs, dated women hungry for love but bitter about men, and infiltrated all-male communities as   hermetically sealed as a men’s therapy group, and even a monastery. Narrated in her utterly   captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great personal   cost, Norah uses her intimate firsthand experience to explore the many remarkable mysteries of   gender identity as well as who men are apart from and in relation to women. Far from becoming   bitter or outraged, Vincent ended her journey astounded—and exhausted—by the rigid codes and   rituals of masculinity. Having gone where no woman (who wasn’t an aspiring or actual   transsexual) has gone for any significant length of time, let alone eighteen months, Norah   Vincent’s surprising account is an enthralling reading experience and a revelatory piece of   anecdotally based gender analysis that is sure to spark fierce and fascinating conversation.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a great premise -- a woman attempting to live as a man, to gain access to the &quot;secret lives&quot; of men. This could have been a very successful magazine article. As a full-length book, though, it's awash in pseudo-insights that range from maudlin to downright offensive. The autho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16875313">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>A journalist's provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man</strong> <p> Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of <em>Self-Made Man</em>, 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 (<em>Black Like Me</em>), 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, <em>Self-Made Man</em> is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book infuriated me.  I would like to give it negative 3 stars.  Unfortunately that's not possible.<br/><br/>Vincent makes broad generalizations about various groups of people based on their gender, race and class.  I found her perspective to be incredibly elitist and classist; her analysis of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3138393">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an intresting sociological study of manhood from a woman's point of view. It's certainly a provocotive book, which offers a lot of food for thought, although Norah's own journey is not paticularly in depth or comphrehensive. <br/><br/>She struggles a lot with the guilt of decieving people ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4692103">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[some forms of socialization into masculinity explored through her donning of differnt male identities, such as  the power-pumping salesman, the average-joe bowling night, the monk, etc. she even dates.  the most interesting part for me were the surprising discoveries...how people reacted to her as h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4868036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting book.  A New York liberal, lesbian, feminist takes on the role of a man to see what men are all about.  As Ned, she joins a bowling team, works selling merchandise in a high pressure sales job, visits strip clubs, goes on dates, stays at a monestary for a while, and goes to meetings...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9310616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In her account of a year and a half disguised as a man, NV squashes the perception that men have it easy.<br/><br/>Emily<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was eye-opening in ways I could never have imagined. I picked it up because I thought it would be interesting but I had no idea it would shake my very foundations as a feminist and make me reconsider all these ideas I'd had about the patriarchy and male privilege. It's really given me a lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33062089">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating insight into the world of men as viewed by a woman.  Her conclusions are colored by her specific experiences, of course.  I took exception to the chapter on sex.  I don't think Ms. Vincent's experiences at bottom-of-the-barrel strip clubs can lead to much that reflects on the type of per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40738533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book and that is about where I ended. I disagreed with the author almost instantly. There are so many stereotypes in the first chapter to make any reader question her approach to this book. I think that she is overly defensive of the male characters that she documents. She is a woman,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31199761">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW! What an insightful book about being a man.  This book takes you on a journey of how a woman prepares to look, act and fool society on being a &quot;man&quot;.  Her insight on what men do when they interact with one another is eye opening.  Some of the stories are dull while others are quite ins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38697114">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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