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Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: Memoirs
Time of Work: 1947-1997
Setting: Iowa City, Iowa; Rotterdam; San Francisco and Berkeley, California
Principal Characters: Donald/Deirdre McCloskey, McCloskey’s wife, McCloskey’s sister, Arjo Klamer, Trees Ketting, Marianne Ketting
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subjects: 1950’s, Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, 1970’s, Gender roles, 1940’s, Midwest, 1980’s, San Francisco, 1990’s, Netherlands or Dutch people
Locales: San Francisco, CA, Berkeley, CA, Iowa City, IA, Rotterdam, Netherlands

At the age of fifty-two, after cross-dressing in secret for forty-one years, respected professor of history and economics Donald N. McCloskey decided to cross the gender line for good. Risking an extremely successful career as a distinguished academician, a prominent position in his community, and the love of his wife and family, McCloskey came to the realization that “I can be a woman. . . . I am a woman.” From this point on, through numerous expensive and invasive medical procedures, rejection by his wife and family, and more than one attempt to have him institutionalized,...

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