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  • Erotic Capital

  • The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom
  • Written by: Catherine Hakim
  • Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
  • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Written by: Catherine Hakim
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
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In 2010, pioneering sociologist Catherine Hakim shocked the world with a provocative new theory: In addition to the three recognized personal assets (economic, cultural, and social capital), each individual has a fourth asset - erotic capital - that he or she can, and should, use to advance within society.

In this bold and controversial book, Hakim explores the applications and significance of erotic capital, challenging the disapproval meted out to women and men who use sex appeal to get ahead in life. Social scientists have paid little serious attention to these modes of personal empowerment, despite overwhelming evidence of their importance. In Erotic Capital, Hakim marshals a trove of research to show that rather than degrading those who employ it, erotic capital represents a powerful and potentially equalizing tool - one that we scorn only to our own detriment.
©2011 Catherine Hakim (P)2012 Gildan Media Corp
Sociology Economics Psychology
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What the critics say

“This enthusiastic book…succeeds in marrying economics with eros.” ( Publishers Weekly)
“Poets and novelists have always sensed that sexual attractiveness is a kind of capital…. But few sociologists have studied erotic capital outside the marriage market…. Hakim’s concept of erotic capital…offers insight into an age that has, as Philip Larkin once put it, ‘burst into fulfillment’s desolate attic.’” ( Financial Times, London)

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so much potential unfulfilled

this is a very provocative and worthwhile idea. but the author spent her time proving that erotic capital exists, which everyone is aware of, rather how to consciously utilize it creatively in spheres such as the boardroom.

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