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Crossing: A Memoir
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This fascinating memoir chronicles Deirdre McCloskey's transformation from Donald McCloskey, an economist at the University of Iowa and married father of two, into the woman he finally accepted he had always wanted to be. McCloskey had been dressing in women's clothes since he was 11, but after his daughter went to college in 1994, the 52-year-old man grew increasingly aware that he was more than "just a heterosexual crossdresser." As he moved toward the decision to become a transsexual, his wife reacted angrily, and his sister tried twice to have him declared insane. The passages detailing McCloskey's ordeal within the psychiatric and legal establishment are as gripping as a topnotch thriller. But the memoir's deeper interest lies in the author's reflections on the nature of gender and identity. Donald was a macho academic who dominated every discussion, viewing conversation as an exercise in one-upmanship. As he surgically altered his appearance and began to take estrogen on the road to "The Operation," he found himself relating to people in a more conventionally female way: listening to others, considering feelings. "The hormones are working, he thought at first. Or was it merely that the real person could now stand up?... Biology or core identity?" There are no final answers to such questions, but McCloskey poses them with sensitivity and insight. --Wendy Smith
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A testimony to her struggles and courage, Crossing invites the reader to enter Deirdre (formerly Donald) McCloskey's mind as she decides to become a woman after a lifetime as a man, husband, and father. A renowned professor of economics at the University of Iowa, Donald McCloskey had to fight tenaciously to realize his inner call to become a woman against such foes as his sister (who had him repeatedly committed against his will for psychiatric evaluations) and his marriage family (who, in the book's most heart-wrenching scenes, renounce their father and former husband). Mixed with this trauma, however, is McCloskey's blossoming sense of self and her discovery of a true community of friends who love her for the woman she is, not the man she was. The cantankerous halls of academe provide the setting for many of the memoir's intriguing political debates: feminists argue that McCloskey is not a women and therefore should not join female faculty groups; conservative economists accept McCloskey's new self with libertarian nonchalance. Oddly enough, though, McCloskey's views of gender seem to become more strongly reified through her experiences. Men are combative; women nurturing. Men barter for gain; women give for comfort. One is left wondering how a woman brave enough to undergo the tribulations of losing a family and to face the possibility of professional contumely could have emerged from a man so self-parodically timid of his femininity that he could not bring himself to describe his car as ``dark blue, with cream trim.'' This Trojan horse of a memoir approaches under the guise of sexual equity yet closes with gender stereotypes still firmly entrenched. Crossing remains a tribute to the power of resisting society in order to realize personal fulfillment, but McCloskey would have done so with a more incisive voice if she did not seem to believe so strongly in the many gender stereotypes she attempts to undermine. (10 halftones) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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While the subject is inherently interesting to me, and no doubt there is need for a thoughtful book on gender crossing, this book did not do it. Not only was the style irritating (why is it in third person when it is clearly a biography? why are some of her thoughts in bold?), the narrator's attitude made me actually argue out loud. The narrator (and subject) has such a stereotypical view of what it means to be a woman--she suggests that the only way she could explore the softer side of herself was to become a woman. Donald would have done that, but Dierdre reacts this way instead--as if adding a few hormones and removing some body parts can change the essence of a person. As a woman, I'm offended at all the assumptions this author makes about women's feelings and actions--women can be tough and obnoxious, too, just as Dierdre's former male self. As well, the author seems to be fairly taken with her own intelligence--and suggests that as a woman, it would be harder to pull off such massive intellect. Finally, the author needed to think a little more even-handedly about the subject, even if she had a strong opinion on it, because otherwise it just sounds a like a book-long pitch--"You should like and accept me!" Explore some of the negative opinions have about gender crossing, or misperceptions, and treat them directly, rather than showing those in opposition as the devil--perhaps show some understanding of where those people are coming from.
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I was looking forward to reading this book. I had heard McCloskey speak on Nat. P.Radio, have seen a couple of videos on transsexuals at a film festival and am interested in identity issues. This book was a tremendous disappointment. It's irritatingly written, often in the third person, with the author's observations on her observations in bold-face type. Even worse than the style is what she has to say. Or, better, what she actually says. I, a female all my life, couldn't believe all the stereotypes, cliches. If ever there could be meaningful I-was-there type of observations about the differences or similarities between male and female, a trans-gender person could be/should be the one to make those observations. And McCloskey, from her economics book writing and teaching, would seem to be the good writer of that not-ordinary transition.Instead, there is a huge amount of drivel. She seems to cry at the drop of a hankie, and I'd be wiling to bet she carries hankies - and says all women do while men don't. That's not my observation or that of friends. In brief, if you arrived here from outer space and read this book, you'd believe all men are warlike, conflict lovers and all women are simpering, feeling sweet conflict resolvers. Her fixation on clothes and makeup is stunning and pathetic. Perhaps it is understandable, although I think until a MtoF transsexual is comfortable wearing jeans, she won't truly seem like a 20th-21st c. woman! but such descriptions do not a good book make. There's every bathroom-reading Ladies Home Journal/Readers Digest cliche about men and women you can imagine here. Her editor should have done *a lot* more work!What a disappointment because McCloskey has an important story to tell --- and she was treated abysmally by her family who are but shadows in this book (interesting that a reading of this book suggests that four of the coldest, cruelest are her ex-wife, sister, son, and perhaps daughter) and by some of the medical/psychiatric profession. She could have written a book that helped others and shown the light on an important and heart-rending personal transition. That is not this book. I am glad I got it at the library and spent my money here on Amazon on other books.
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I plodded through this book. It is very disjointed. I sense that Ms. McCloskey is very narcissistic and pretentious. I feel unconvinced by his assertion that he was a woman trapped inside a man's body. It was very self-centered for him to undergo a gender "crossing", not giving any consideration for the feelings of his wife and children.
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A Depressing Definition of "Woman"
About halfway through the book it struck me that although the author is the same age as I am (early 50s) the womanhood he embraces is the very same womanhood my mother tried to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2000 von A Lover of Good Books
An amazingly selfish person
I found this book shocking -- not because of the sex change operation, but simply because McCloskey was amazingly selfish. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
A delightfully detached, and detailled account of crossing.
Donald was a simple hetrosexual crossdresser for years, until without really realising it he started to cross the line, and become a woman. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 2000 von Julianne Helene Hazell
A Great Book!
American jokes often begin with "You know that someone or something is ... if ..." and the list goes on. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. April 2000 von Frederic
An important book
This book forces the reader to confront a situation radically different from what most of us have ever experienced and asks to be met with sympathy. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Fascinating and self aware
Although I didn't plan to, I read this book in one sitting. Stories of personal transformation are always fascinating, but a transformation of this magnitude; from one gender to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
An Education
"Crossing: A Memoir" is an excellent education for anyone who wants to learn more about the complexities involved in changing (and, ultimately, accepting) your own... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Dezember 1999 von Ron Baker
Crossing A Memoir
Dr. McCloskey is a successful economic professor at the heigth of his career as Donald. So why would someone want to change his sex? This book addresses this issue and much more. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. November 1999 von Arthur Ihrig
A Well-Written Memoir with Insight into Gender Issues
Kudos for the first completely honest and exceptionally well-written presentation of the difficult road a transgendered person must travel to define his/her place in the world. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. November 1999 von Dr. George Wilkerson
"Crossing": Bad memoir, full of myths and stereotypes.
"Crossing," Dierdre McCloskey's memoir about transsexaul transition, contains a thin thread of energy that propells the reader through the story. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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