{"product_id":"an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work","title":"An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a \"rigorous and compulsively readable memoir\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A memoir of sex work that is also a poignant love story\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShane uses her \"unsparing honestly\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at a 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBraiding the personal and the universal, \u003ci\u003eAn Honest Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a merciless and moving love letter to 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53354636902768,"sku":"9781982126872","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_5971cbe0-a88a-41bf-b50c-52ed0e072ef6.jpg?v=1773284957","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}