- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (3 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226556689
- ISBN-13: 978-0226556680
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,119,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Deirdre McCloskey, the former Donald, tells the story of her crossing the gender line in this memoir. An economist and historian, a husband and father, Donald McCloskey had cross-dressed for years without wanting more. But rather suddenly, at age 52, a sense that he was denying his real identity grew to the point where he knew he needed to become a woman. This book is the story of this realization and its consequences. McCloskey relates in detail the process of physically becoming a woman but also the emotional wake - personal and professional - left by her decision. Her mother accepts her; her children reject her. Some conservative economists prove to be gender libertarians, but some progressive feminists prove to be gender authoritarians. McCloskey's account of her crossing and her painstaking efforts to learn to "be a woman" enfold all the aspects of her journey into fundamental questions about gender and identity, hatreds and anxieties, that have surprising answers. This is the story of a golden boy of conservative economics, a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, who became a woman. Of necessity she also became an artist performing, and then embodying, gender. She notes that the performance was enacted "often with no audience and seldom with a script."
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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.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you are interested in transsexual transition - read on!,
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Deirdre tells her story from a very frank and honest perspective without glossing over issues which some might find potentially difficult to accept as part of a transsexuals self-growth and developing self awareness. It shows by example that there is no such thing as a 'typical' transsexual! I personally found the book extremely useful, entertaining and enlightening. I would sincerely recommend it to any person who is interested in learning more. For transgendered persons and transsexuals in particular, I would strongly suggest reading it!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A Professor talking about her transexuality,
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This review is from: Crossing: A Memoir (Paperback)
Prof. McCloskey, a world famous economist, historian reveals her secret - she knew from a very young age.. that she was different. A rugby captain, a successful academic, a husband and above all, a father. A moving tale about how her siblings, wife and children abandoned this world reknowned Economist, one who wrote some of the most controversial journals on economic history and the editor of the most famous Cambridge Economic History of Britain. She was sent to a metal asylum and spent thousands and thousands on lawsuits and surgeories.... A gripping and saddening tale...
6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting content, poor writing,
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This review is from: Crossing: A Memoir (Paperback)
McCloskey changes from transvestite to transexual, and describes the heart-ache and practicalities that go with that.It's an interesting story, but Deirdre has the immensely irritating habit of using the third person throughout. It's clearly a subjective and highly biased account, and the use of the third person feels terribly wrong. For me, that cost one star on its own. The unrestrained bias cost another. Underneath that skin, though, this is a genuinely interesting story, and if you're interested in such things, it's worth a read.
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