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Self-Made Man

One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

By Norah Vincent

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| Paperback | 9780143038702

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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 Continue

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Suits you, sir

Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent Atlantic £9.99, pp304 Not many women could get away with successfully impersonating a man over a long period, but then, not many men have the balls Norah Vincent has. The Los Angeles Times co ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Self-Made Man, by Norah Vincent (304pp, Atlantic Books, £9.99) In retrospect, a gender corollary to Black Like Me is such an obvious project that it's amazing no one before Norah Vincent has embarked upon it. For 18 months, the American writer packed ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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癲男喪女之喪女 - Self-made man

如果你係港女，好想了解港男。你會：
1. 去動物園，要搭電車去。
2. 學徐淑敏食嘢把聲，「唔…唔」，「啊…啊」，然後仔細觀察身邊班佬既反應。
3. 做港男選舉現場觀眾，近距離觀摸（唔係錯別字）佢地點樣接受一班中女闊太及三四線女星既挑戰，同挑情。
4. 扮男人，好似德誠女傭咁融入佢地既生活中，偷窺佢地既秘密。
你話：爛gag黎ga？咁不設實際！我返屋企研究我自己個隻好過啦。唔係喎，真人真事黎喎！由其是第四項，有一個叫Norah Vincent既外國女子，喪到扮咗一年男人，就係為咗想了解一吓做男人係點樣既。佢仲要唔係行行企企咁簡單，而係交朋友 ... (continue)

如果你係港女，好想了解港男。你會：
1. 去動物園，要搭電車去。
2. 學徐淑敏食嘢把聲，「唔…唔」，「啊…啊」，然後仔細觀察身邊班佬既反應。
3. 做港男選舉現場觀眾，近距離觀摸（唔係錯別字）佢地點樣接受一班中女闊太及三四線女星既挑戰，同挑情。
4. 扮男人，好似德誠女傭咁融入佢地既生活中，偷窺佢地既秘密。
你話：爛gag黎ga？咁不設實際！我返屋企研究我自己個隻好過啦。唔係喎，真人真事黎喎！由其是第四項，有一個叫Norah Vincent既外國女子，喪到扮咗一年男人，就係為咗想了解一吓做男人係點樣既。佢仲要唔係行行企企咁簡單，而係交朋友，工作，落Strip Bar，「界」女，等等等等！佢將經驗寫成咗本書：《Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man》。
雖然Norah帶住頗重既女性主義眼光去睇男人們，女人們，男女之間既角力同關係，好多地方依然精警。而且，一人分飾兩角，可以睇到中間既對照。佢筆下既係美國男女，不過好多嘢放諸四海皆準，例如以下呢一段：
Yet as much as these women wanted a take-control man, at the same time, they wanted a man who was vulnerable to them, a man who would show his colors and open his doors, someone expressive, intuitive, attuned. This I was in spades, and I always got points for it, but feeling the pressure to be that other world bestriding colossus at the same time made me fell very sympathetic toward men, not only because living up to Caesar is an immensely heavy burden to bear, but because trying to be a sensitive new age guy at the same time is pretty well impossible. If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What’s more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.
真係一本好睇既Gender Study書。

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