University Of Chicago Press
September 2000
On Sale: September 1, 2000
282 pages ISBN: 0226556697 EAN: 9780226556697 Kindle: B0041841FW Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossingβcompletely and entirelyβthe gender line. Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McCloskey's account of her painstaking efforts to learn to "be a woman" unearth fundamental questions about gender and identity, and hatreds and anxieties, revealing surprising answers.
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