Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
by:
Norah Vincent (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780641974526 (0641974523)
Publish date: November 21st 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 290
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Feminism,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Glbt,
Gender,
Gender Studies
This book took me much longer to read than I expected. The premise of the book intrigued me, but reading through it, I was very bored. The writing isn't bad, but it is written in such a rambling way that it is easy to zone out. Overall, the book was okay. It was written over ten years ago so I think...
In Nickle and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich makes it very clear early in the book that she is not claiming that she is speaking for the working class. She states that she cannot entirely know what their lives are like, and what she is presenting is her own experience, and stories she was told by others....
After reading Leahjk's review, I think I'll give it a pass.
I asked my husband to buddy-read this with me, but the ethics of it made him so uncomfortable he didn't get very far. A legitimate point -- the author herself was very troubled by what she was doing. He also felt left out of the book, since it doesn't deal with geek men at all -- also a very valid ...
The experiment Vincent performed on herself is a fascinating one but it is completely lost here due to bad writing. She has no story-telling ability to speak of and turned what was an emotional experience into a synopsis, theme-category style, of her time researching for this book.
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