"Thank God … I thought for a moment you were going to confess to converting to socialism!"1: Gender and identity in Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing

Feminist Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-120

  Christensen, Kimberley ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender definitions; Gender performance; Heterosexual masculinity; Rational choice analysis; Social construction of gender; Transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035647166     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545700110068270     Document Type: Review

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