Summary of Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman.
#2 In 2003, a guy I knew passed as a woman for a short while to see how men treated him. He found that they treated him very differently, more respectfully.
#3 I needed a name for my character. I chose the name Ned, a nickname from childhood that had long since fallen out of use, but which was intimately tied to the project at hand.
#4 I was a tomboy, and I wanted to be able to dress like a boy without getting stared at. I eventually decided to pass as a boy, and it changed my life.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• Gender Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350000177
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman.

#2

In 2003, a guy I knew passed as a woman for a short while to see how men treated him. He found that they treated him very differently, more respectfully.

#3

I needed a name for my character. I chose the name Ned, a nickname from childhood that had long since fallen out of use, but which was intimately tied to the project at hand.

#4

I was a tomboy, and I wanted to be able to dress like a boy without getting stared at. I eventually decided to pass as a boy, and it changed my life.

#5

I became Ned, and stopped getting stared at. I had a beard made by a theater friend, and it was far more subtle than the slapdash one I’d made years before.

#6

I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman.

#7

I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman. I became Ned, and stopped getting stared at. I had a beard made by a theater friend, and it was far more subtle than the slapdash one I’d made years before.

#8

I was a tomboy, and I wanted to be able to dress like a boy without getting stared at. I eventually decided to pass as a boy, and it changed my life. I became Ned, and stopped getting stared at.

#9

I did not write this book as a means of coming out as a transgender man. I am not a transsexual, and I never felt myself to be a man trapped in the wrong body. I have always been and remain fascinated by gender, both as a cultural and a psychological phenomenon.

#10

This book is a travelogue of my experience trying to live as a man. I did not try to come out as a transgender man, but rather as a tomboy who just wanted to dress like a boy without getting stared at. I eventually decided to pass as a boy, and it changed my life.

#11

I was a tomboy, and I wanted to be able to dress like a boy without getting stared at. I eventually decided to pass as a boy, and it changed my life.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman. I became Ned, and stopped getting stared at.

#2

I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman. I became Ned, and stopped getting stared at.

#3

Men don’t need to be reminded of the brotherhood they share. It’s something they just know.