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Self Made Man
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2006-01
Self Made Man written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01 with Social Science categories.
A Los Angeles Times columnist recounts her eighteen-month undercover stint as a man, a time during which she underwent considerable personal risks as she worked a sales job, joined a bowling league, frequented sex clubs, dated, and encountered firsthand the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. 80,000 first printing.
Self Made Men
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Author : Henry Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2003
Self Made Men written by Henry Rubin and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Female-to-male transsexuals categories.
In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed their sex from female to male. The author relates the compelling personal narratives of his subjects to the historical emergence of FTM as an identity category. In the interviews that form the heart of the book, the FTMs speak about their struggles to define themselves and their diverse experiences, from the pressures of gender conformity in adolescence to being mistaken for "butch lesbians," from hormone treatments and surgeries to relationships with families, partners, and acquaintances. Their stories of feeling betrayed by their bodies and of undergoing a "second puberty" are vivid and thought-provoking. Throughout the interviews, the subjects' claims to having "core male identities" are remarkably consistent and thus challenge anti-essentialist assumptions in current theories of gender, embodiment, and identity. Rubin uses two key methods to analyze and interpret his findings. Adapting Foucault's notions of genealogy, he highlights the social construction of gender categories and identities. His account of the history of endocrinology and medical technologies for transforming bodies demonstrates that the "family resemblance" between transsexuals and intersexuals was a necessary postulate for medical intervention into the lives of the emerging FTMs. The book also explores the historical emergence of the category of FTM transsexual as distinguished from the category of lesbian woman and the resultant "border disputes" over identity between the two groups. Rubin complements this approach with phenomenological concepts that stress the importance of lived experience and the individual's capacity for knowledge and action. An important contribution to several fields, including sociology of the body, gender and masculinity, human development, and the history of science, Self-Made Me will be of interest to anyone who has seriously pondered what it means to be a man and how men become men.
Self Made Man
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2023-11-16
Self Made Man written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren't around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a men's therapy group. At once thought-provoking and pure fun to read, Self-Made Man is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism.
Self Made Man
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Self Made Man written by Norah Vincent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Large type books categories.
Narrated with exquisite insight, humor, and empathy, the author uses her firsthand experience--the 18 months she masqueraded as a man--to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity.
Self Made Men
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Self Made Men
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Author : Charles C. B. Seymour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
Self Made Men written by Charles C. B. Seymour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with Biography categories.
Self Made Man
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Author : Norah Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-01-19
Self Made Man written by Norah Vincent and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-19 with Social Science categories.
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 of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren’t around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a men’s therapy group. At once thought-provoking and pure fun to read, Self-Made Man is a sympathetic and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism.
The Self Made Men
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Author : Michael Curtin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Self Made Men written by Michael Curtin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with categories.
'Curtin is one of Ireland's best writers.' Roddy Doyle 'Michael Curtin's first and very funny novel gives a good impression of being a free-wheeling, rumbustious shaggy-dog story while actually being a carefully structured and ordered work of considerable craftsmanship... the story grips and entertains until the last page.' British Book News 'I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Curtin's debut and look forward to his second novel.' The Irish Press The hero of this wonderfully funny first novel is a young Irishman, Billy Whelan, who one lonely, dinnerless Christmas day in London, in that desert stretch of afternoon when the pubs are shut and Kilburn High Road dead as a tomb, huddles in his rented room and in desperation answers an ad in one of his collection of Screen Monthlies. He soon finds himself in a deep and confessional correspondence with a box number in New York and by the time we meet him next, in Limerick, married and with two small children, he is president of Fart International, an organisation with American money in the bank but as yet no members but himself. How Billy collects the handful of eccentrics who are to be the members of this ego-boosting club and how this activity meshes in with his career as an ice-cream hawker and his marriage to Breda - which is bedevilled by his enthusiasm for pubs and scant though affectionate relationship with his children - is the stuff of this refreshingly unusual tale. Fart International, of which the true origin remains obscure until the book ends, is both an absurd joke and an answer to a psychological need. Through it the fatherless Billy and its secret founder re-imagine themselves and absolve the loneliness and the failures of the past - a past which for Billy holds not just the desolation of that Christmas day but his imagined humiliation at the hands of four schoolfellows - Higgins, Murphy, Nicky and Mark Brown. How Billy, buoyed up by the lunatic fraternity of Fart International and by warm memories of the old Irishman, Hogan, in whose beery glow he spent many hours in London, confronts these ghosts at an Old Boy's Dinner, and how Breda (from the classy end of town, but persuasively courted and won by the engaging Billy) gets her washing machine and a step nearer to a conventional home are two more threads in this finally triumphant tale.
The Speeches Of Frederick Douglass
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Author : Frederick Douglass
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-23
The Speeches Of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Literary Collections categories.
A collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most important orations This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women’s rights, economic development, and immigration. Douglass’s oratory is accompanied by speeches that he considered influential, his thoughts on giving public lectures and the skills necessary to succeed in that endeavor, commentary by his contemporaries on his performances, and modern-day assessments of Douglass’s effectiveness as a public speaker and advocate.
A Self Made Man The Political Life Of Abraham Lincoln 1809 1849
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Author : Sidney Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
A Self Made Man The Political Life Of Abraham Lincoln 1809 1849 written by Sidney Blumenthal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
"A multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius--from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. The first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as 'a slave,' to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. From his youth as a 'newsboy,' a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible, and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer. Lincoln's anti-slavery thinking began in his childhood amidst the Primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian pro-slavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis acting together made possible Lincoln's rise. Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's anti-slavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune in which he discovered her cousin was a slave. Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate"--