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Type: documentary
Status: to read
Author: Norah Vincent
Tags: women men dating woman man as lives
Description: A thoughtful, entertaining piece of first-person investigative journalism . . . Self-Made ManA thoughtful, entertaining piece of first-person investigative journalism . . . Self-Made Man transcends its premise altogether. . . . So rich and so audacious . . . [I was] hooked from Page 1. (David Kamp, The New York Times Book Review)
Vincent’s account of how she ‘became’ a man is undeniably fascinating.” (Los Angeles Times Book World)
Eye-opening . . . Self-Made Man will make many women think twice about coveting male ‘privilege’ and make any man feel grateful that his gender is better understood. (The Washington Post)
[Vincent] can be as perspicuous and exact as Joan Didion or Gloria Steinem at nailing a hitherto disregarded truth about the sexes in a single elegant and witty phrase. . . . This is a brave and often fascinating book, with Vincent . . . offering us perspectives that are entirely fresh and new. (The Times,London) ...
2008-04-27
