{"product_id":"an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work-9781982126872","title":"An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Shane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982126872","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45089339375753,"sku":"9781982126872","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a76e4b26-5453-44ba-97b4-389f6e3d32cf.jpg?v=1766476381","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work-9781982126872","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}