Crossing: A Memoir
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226556697 (0226556697)
ASIN: 0226556697
Publish date: 2000-09-01
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 282
Edition language: English
I've been curious about the lives of transgender people. So many in our culture describe it as clear cut either for good or for bad. I was interested in hearing about all the tiny choices that led up to and came from a big one. Sadly Crossing isn't the novel to tell me. Despite what should be an ele...
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