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Man made : a memoir of my body by Baker, Ken, 1970-Publication date 2001 Topics Men, Masculinity, Gender identity, Sex role, Gender identity, Masculinity, Men, Sex role
Mar 5, 2001 · 3.75. 99 ratings20 reviews. A one-time star hockey goalie-turned-journalist describes his devastating experiences with a rare brain tumor that caused his body to be flooded with massive amounts of female hormone that destroyed his sex drive and hampered his sexual performance, his years of torment, and the brain surgery that eliminated his ...
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Mar 5, 2001 · by Ken Baker (Author) 3.8 21 ratings. See all formats and editions. A one-time star hockey goalie-turned-journalist describes his devastating experiences with a rare brain tumor that caused his body to be flooded with massive amounts of female hormone that destroyed his sex drive and hampered his sexual performance, his years of torment, and ...
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- Ken Baker
Feb 28, 2001 · As a man diagnosed with the same malady as the author, reading about someone who had endured the same misery as myself was both shocking and reassuring. Ken Baker describes his journey in compelling and sometimes painfully honest prose.
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Baker spends most of Man Made describing his years of desperate soul-searching, and complaining about our sex-obsessed culture; consequently, the happy ending to his story — at age 28, he had ...
Six hours of brain surgery would finally accomplish what years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not. Finally, Ken Baker would be able to feel -- and function -- like a man.At a moment of...
Underneath the gripping story of a young man’s coming of age in blue collar, macho-driven upstate New York hockey culture, we have a story that explores the definition of what it is to be male, written by a young man who knows, as few of us ever will, the experience of inhabiting a body at war with itself.
