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  Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back

  by Norah Vincent

  Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin ( Black Like Me ) and Barbara Ehrenreich ( Nickel and Dimed ), 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... (more)