Deze auteur staat bekend om haar inzichtelijke verkenningen van maatschappij en cultuur, waarbij ze zich vaak verdiept in de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door diepe filosofische introspectie en scherpe observatie. Door middel van haar essays en columns onderzoekt de auteur verschillende facetten van identiteit en sociale constructies, en biedt ze lezers prikkelende en unieke perspectieven. Haar stijl is weloverwogen en analytisch, en nodigt lezers uit om de wereld om hen heen te aanschouwen.
The author shares her experiences as "Ned," dating women, joining a men's therapy group, working in a testosterone-driven office, and participating in a bowling league where she struggled. Despite her low scores, no one suspected Ned was actually a woman.
On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent's ADELINE reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginia's greatest consolation, and her greatest torment. Intellectually and emotionally disarming, ADELINE - a vibrant portrait of Woolf and her social circle, the infamous Bloomsbury Group, and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them all - is a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers.
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.
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at times very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America, from the inside out.
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.
Männer haben es leichter als Frauen – Klischee oder Realität? Was spielt sich wirklich ab in der Männerwelt? Die Journalistin Norah Vincent hat eine höchst ungewöhnliche Feldstudie betrieben: Männer, so ihre Annahme, sind nur da richtige Männer, wo ihnen keine Frau zu nahe kommt, wo sie unter sich sind. Und so schlüpft sie für ein Jahr in die Haut eines Mannes. Nach monatelanger Vorbereitungszeit wird aus Norah Ned. In dieser Rolle versucht die Autorin zu verstehen, was ein Leben als Mann bedeutet. Dabei lernt sie die kumpelhafte Atmosphäre eines Bowlingteams kennen, taucht in die teils drastische Welt der Strip-Lokale und Nachtclubs ein, geht für einige Wochen in ein Mönchskloster und schließt sich einer Männergruppe an, die zu den Wurzeln der eigenen Männlichkeit zurückfinden will. Ein ebenso präziser wie aufschlussreicher Blick in eine der weiblichen Erfahrung normalerweise verborgene Welt. Eine Odyssee, die Norah Vincent mit dem Fazit beschließt: So interessant es war – es ist doch viel besser, eine Frau zu sein!