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Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification

Автор Melissa Petro

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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 society-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 shame-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 men-a direct result, as acclaimed journalist Melissa Petro explains, of a patriarchal culture that "urges women to feel bad about themselves, and then punishes them when they do." Why can´t we figure out how to break the shame cycle once and for all?

In Shame on You, Petro takes on the issue of women´s shame directly with an unflinching look at the social systems that encourage women to believe we are deeply inadequate. From shame´s beginnings ( Maybe she´s born with it? Nope, it´s misogyny.) to its effect on our lives as adults (How the humiliation of "bad women" affects us all.), shame poisons our friendships, romantic relationships, and work lives. But it doesn´t have to be that way. Blending investigative reporting, science, literature, and hundreds of women´s personal stories-including her own shameful account of winding up as an unwitting New York Post cover girl-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 become-sometimes as a consequence of shame, rather than in spite of it-are powerful indeed. And maybe that´s what others are afraid of.