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by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
University of Chicago Press, 1999
Cloth: 978-0-226-55668-0 | eISBN: 978-0-226-55672-7 | Paper: 978-0-226-55669-7
Library of Congress Classification HQ77.8.M39A3 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9066

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.