How Long to Read Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years

How Long Does it Take to Read Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years by N. O. Body

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"I was born a boy, raised as a girl. . . . One may raise a healthy boy in as womanish a manner as one wishes, and a female creature in as mannish; never will this cause their senses to remain forever reversed." So writes the pseudonymous N. O. Body, born in 1884 with ambiguous genitalia and assigned a female identity in early infancy. Brought up as a girl, "she" nevertheless asserted stereotypical male behavior from early on. In the end, it was a passionate love affair with a married woman that brought matters to a head. Desperately confused, suicidally depressed, and in consultation with Magnus Hirschfeld, one of the most eminent and controversial sexologists of the day, "she" decided to become "he." Originally published in 1907 and now available for the first time in English, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years describes a childhood and youth in Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany that is shaped by bourgeois attitudes and stifled by convention. It is, at the same time, a book startlingly charged with sexuality. Yet, however frank the memoirist may be about matters physical or emotional, Hermann Simon reveals in his afterword the full extent of the lengths to which N. O. Body went to hide not just his true name but a second secret, his Jewish identity. And here, Sander L. Gilman suggests in his brilliant preface, may lie the crucial hint to solving the real riddle of the ambiguously gendered N. O. Body.

How long is Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years?

Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years by N. O. Body is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years aloud.

What Reading Level is Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years?

Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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