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<p>Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (<i>Black Like Me</i>) and Barbara Ehrenreich (<i>Nickel and Dimed</i>), 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 her to observe the world of men as an insider. The result is a sympathetic, shrewd, and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism that's destined to challenge preconceptions and attract enormous attention.</p> <p>With her buddies on the bowling league she enjoyed the rough and rewarding embrace of male camaraderie undetectable to an outsider. A stint in a high-octane sales job taught her the gut- wrenching pressures endured by men who would do anything to succeed. She frequented sex clubs, dated women hungry for love but bitter about men, and infiltrated all- male communities as hermetically sealed as a men's therapy group, and even a monastery. Narrated in her utterly captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great perso

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Author

Norah, Vincent

Publisher

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated E-Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101201343

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Gender Studies

Rating

3.31 / 5 (3,863 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14