Shame On You : How To Be A Woman In The Age Of Mortification - Hardcover
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9760593714999
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9780593714997

Shame On You : How To Be A Woman In The Age Of Mortification

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Author
Petro, Melissa

In the spirit of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of shame in our societyā€”what it is, why women are uniquely susceptible, and how we can shift the shame off our plates and live our best lives in an over-exposed, image-obsessed world.

For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator. It tells us we are less than, that we are unworthy. We try everything to escape shameā€”ignoring it, intellectualizing it, and even, ironically, shaming ourselves for feeling it. The reality is that women experience shame more frequently and more intensely than menā€”a direct result, as acclaimed journalist Melissa Petro explains, of a patriarchal culture that ā€œurges women to feel bad about themselves, and then punishes them when they do.ā€ Why canā€™t we figure out how to break the shame cycle once and for all?

In Shame on You, Petro takes on the issue of womenā€™s shame directly with an unflinching look at the social systems that encourage women to believe we are deeply inadequate. From shameā€™s beginnings ( Maybe sheā€™s born with it? Nope, itā€™s misogyny.) to its effect on our lives as adults (How the humiliation of ā€œbad womenā€ affects us all.), shame poisons our friendships, romantic relationships, and work lives. But it doesnā€™t have to be that way. Blending investigative reporting, science, literature, and hundreds of womenā€™s personal storiesā€”including her own shameful account of winding up as an unwitting New York Post cover girlā€”Petro offers us a new way forward. No matter what you do, she explains, there is no escaping being judged. And yet, the women we can becomeā€”sometimes as a consequence of shame, rather than in spite of itā€”are powerful indeed. And maybe thatā€™s what others are afraid of.

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