In 2010 public school teacher Melissa Petro found herself as the cover story of a New York Post article outing her as a former sex worker.
She reflects on her experience with shame and the unique ways women experience different forms of shame in her book "Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification."
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Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification was published by Putnam.
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