{"product_id":"9781982126872-an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work","title":"An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a \"rigorous and compulsively readable memoir\" ( New York  magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.   \"A memoir of sex work that is also a poignant love story\" - The Washington Post 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 \"unsparing honestly\" ( The New York Times Book Review ) 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.\"   Braiding the personal and the universal,  An Honest Woman  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":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48957516120283,"sku":"9781982126872","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a09e2612-d092-4d60-9879-241a34dba793.jpg?v=1783516678","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781982126872-an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}