An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex WorkThrough 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 womens studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote

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and widely held to be the benchmark of this literary lion’s career

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In her early twenties