Shame on You

Shame on You (2025) investigates how patriarchal systems weaponize shame against women, making them feel fundamentally unworthy while paradoxically punishing them for internalizing this unworthiness. Through investigative reporting, scientific research, and personal stories, it exposes shame's toxic impact on women's relationships, careers, and self-perception, while also offering a blueprint for becoming shame-resilient.

• Women struggling with perfectionism
• Feminst activists
• Parents of daughters

Melissa Petro is an acclaimed journalist, author, and advocate whose teaching career ended abruptly when her past as a sex worker became tabloid news. She has transformed her personal experience with public shame into a mission to help women recognize and resist the their own experiences of shame.