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Crossing

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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.

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ISBN: 9780226662565
Publication date: 27th September 2019
Author: Deirdre N McCloskey
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 320 pages
Genres: Gender studies, gender groups