Shane, Charlotte

An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work -- Charlotte Shane, Hardcover

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Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.

In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women's studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results.

Shane uses her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships--with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband--she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual "other woman."

Braiding the personal and the universal, Shane's memoir is a merciless and moving love letter to straight men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women.

Author: Charlotte Shane
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 08/13/2024
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781982126865

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2024
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2024

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Biographies & Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography, Books, Books › Subjects › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs, Charlotte Shane, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Hardcover, Human Sexuality (see also Psychology, Human Sexuality), Man-woman relationships - United States, Memoirs, Recently Sold, Simon & Schuster, Social Science, Subjects

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