Crossing: A Memoir - Brossura

McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen N.

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ISBN 10: 0226556697 ISBN 13: 9780226556697

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Riassunto

We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing—completely and entirely—the 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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L'autore:

Deirdre N. McCloskey is University Professor of the Human Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of nine books, including The Vices of Economists and If You're So Smart, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

A renowned economist and historian, a husband and father, Donald McCloskey (now Deirdre) had crossdressed for years without wanting more. But at age fifty-two a sense that he was denying his real identity grew to the point where he knew he had to become a woman. Crossing is the poignant story of this realization and its consequences.

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• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0226556697
• ISBN 13: 9780226556697
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 306