Crossing: A Transgender Memoir
Deirdre Nansen
αααααΆ 2019 Β· University of Chicago Press
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βI 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.β
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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 pathβagainst gays, socialists, women with professions, men without hats, and so onβand certainly against gender transition. Finally, in 1995, at the age of fifty-three, it was time for McCloskey to cross the gender line.
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Crossing is the story of McCloskeyβs 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 transformationβwhat she lost, what she gained, and the women who lifted her up along the way.
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βI 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.β
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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 pathβagainst gays, socialists, women with professions, men without hats, and so onβand certainly against gender transition. Finally, in 1995, at the age of fifty-three, it was time for McCloskey to cross the gender line.
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Crossing is the story of McCloskeyβs 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 transformationβwhat she lost, what she gained, and the women who lifted her up along the way.
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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among her many books areΒ The Bourgeois Virtues,Β Bourgeois Dignity,Β Bourgeois Equality,Β Economical Writing, The Secret Sins of Economics, andΒ If Youβre So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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