Norah Vincent is an American lesbian journalist and author. Vincent was a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from its 2001 inception[1] to 2003. She has also had columns at Salon.com[2], The Advocate[3], the Los Angeles Times[4], and the Village Voice[5]. Vincent's most recent book, Self-Made Man, retells an eighteen-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a male. She talked about it in HARDtalk extra on BBC on April 21, 2006 and described her experiences in male-male and male-female relationships. She joined an all-male bowling club, joined a men's therapy group, went to strip clubs and visited Catholic monks in a cloister. She dated women and describes how inferior she felt, when judged by women during flirting: the harsh way in which many women pre-judged her, assuming all men to be essentially the same, turned her, albeit briefly, into a "temporary misogynist", seeing as most women never can the failings of her own sex from the other side. Vincent writes about how the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man: her alter-ego, Ned, was assumed to be gay on several occasions, and features which in her as a woman had been seen as "butch" became oddly effeminate when seen in a man. Vincent asserts that, since the experiment, she has never been more glad to be female.[6]
References
- ^ Independent gay forum: Norah Vincent. Independent gay forum. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
- ^ Norah Vincent - Salon.com. Retrieved on 2006-02-20. (requires allowing cookies)
- ^ "Last Word", The Advocate. Issue 903.
- ^ Vincent, Norah. "Getting a grip is all we can do", Los Angeles Times, 2001-10-25.
- ^ Vincent, Norah. "Higher ed", Village Voice, 2001-02-06. Retrieved on 2006-02-20.
- ^ "A self-made man. Woman goes undercover to experience life as a man", 20/20, ABC news, 2006-01-20. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
