Abstract
Mondaine and holder of a philosophy thesis, writer, founder of the «suridealism» then of the journal Psyché, Maryse Choisy has for a time practiced a journalism immersion in the milieu of prostitution then at the monks of Mount Athos in 1929 ( one month among men) in a challenge to the forbidden (the place being forbidden to women). Noting that too often the «performance» obscures the work, we will study in detail his book A month among men.In the action, she makes her place in a man’s trade (to integrate into the society of letters) by placing herself at the heart of the action to take up challenges using her femininity, even if she denies it ( by having her breasts removed and wearing a masculine simulacrum to better disguise herself/transform into a man). She fights the “status contradiction” (Hughes, 1996) of women in jobs requiring "masculine" attributes (Prévot, 2010; Pruvost, 2007) and poses the problem of the body in the process of building gender (Guillaumin, 1992) that is found in the field of sport (Louveau, 1986; Laberger, 2004; Menesson, 2003; Menesson & Galissaire, 2004). we will try to show how far the involvement of body and clothing goes in the process of building the gender.