by Norah Vincent
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.
Imagine you're able to pass as the oppossite sex. At work, in a club, when you're roaming the streets. That would be intriguing, exciting, yet odd and scary at the same time. What would you do? What would you like to find out? Where would you start? Norah Vincent made it happen, with the idea of stu...
This is a great book. I absolutely adored it. Her writing voice is frank and thoughtful, and she does a fantastic job of exploring the gender divide. I want to own this book. It's the type of book that you just want to grab a pen or pencil and notate throughout the thing, marking all those aweso...
An interesting read, but not particularly profound. I think all of us have wondered on a superficial level, what it would be like to walk in the shoes of the opposite gender. But short of complete sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy, such a thing is not quite possible.She could look like ...
+ Interesting sociological adventure and engaging first-person account- Tiresome gender stereotypes, use of deceptive techniquesIn the tradition of John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
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