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You might well look at Norah Vincent in male drag on the cover of "Self-Made Man" -- she appears in rectangular glasses, fake stubble and suit and tie -- and conclude that she doesn't make a terribly convincing man. But as Vincent might be the first to tell you, she doesn't make a terribly convincing woman either. In her "female" photo, she is wearing lipstick, eyeliner and a black dress with a plunging neckline, but she is unmistakably one of those women conventionally called "mannish," a woman who, as she has discussed in print, has sometimes been addressed as "sir" throughout her adult life. Dressed in drag, Norah Vincent visited strip clubs and dated women to find out what it means to be a man. She ended up in the loony bin. See My life as a man @ Salon.com