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Norah Vincent’s Self‑Made Man follows her twenty‑four month experiment living undercover as her male alter‑ego, Ned. Over eighteen months she infiltrates male‑dominated spaces—bowling teams, high‑energy sales, strip clubs, a monastery, and a men’s therapy group—to directly observe and reflect on the everyday realities of masculinity and gender expectations.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Norah Vincent
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