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Crossing
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- Book Synopsis
- A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am." Once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s privilege, Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald) had wanted to change genders from the age of eleven. But it was a different time, one hostile to any sort of straying from the path-against gays, socialists, women with professions, men without hats, and so on-and certainly against gender transition. Finally, in 1995, at the age of fifty-three, it was time for McCloskey to cross the gender line. Crossing is the story of McCloskey's dramatic and poignant transformation from Donald to Dee to Deirdre. She chronicles the physical procedures and emotional evolution required and the legal and cultural roadblocks she faced in her journey to womanhood. By turns searing and humorous, this is the unflinching, unforgettable story of her transformation-what she lost, what she gained, and the women who lifted her up along the way.
- About The Author
- Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is the Isaiah Berlin Chair of Liberal Thought and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. She has authored two dozen books, most recently Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics; Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science; and Why Liberalism Works.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780226662565
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press, (27 September 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 454 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 18 mm
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