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Catherine Hakim

LSE sociologist best known for her theory of “erotic capital”. Author of Honey Money and The New Rules: Internet Dating, Playfairs and Erotic Power

Catherine Hakim is an expert on women’s employment perhaps best known for her theory of “erotic capital” and is currently a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Civil Society.

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Catherine Hakim is an expert on women’s employment perhaps best known for her theory of “erotic capital” and is currently a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Civil Society.

Catherine Hakim Videos

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Catherine Hakim,Christopher Hamilton,Rowan Pelling,Sean Curran

The Secret Life of Desire

Is desire a consequence of scarcity and denial?
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Catherine Hakim,Peter Tatchell,Myriam Francois,Katherine Angel

Desiring and being desired

Navigating power in #MeToo
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Catherine Hakim,Michele le Doeuff,Mark Vernon

Sex Machines

The place of sex in our lives
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Catherine Hakim,Theodore Dalrymple,Zing Tsjeng,Niki Adams

Victims and Conquerors

Prostitutes or clients, who holds the power?

Catherine Hakim Articles

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Catherine Hakim

Living Differently
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Catherine Hakim

Embracing Erotic Capital
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Catherine Hakim

Love Incorporated
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Catherine Hakim

Power, Status, and Sexuality
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Catherine Hakim

Love Incorporated

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Catherine Hakim,Paul Moss,Theodore Dalrymple,Hallie Rubenhold,Brooke Magnanti

Selling Ourselves

The body as a commodity
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Catherine Hakim,Robert Rowland Smith,Ritula Shah,Brooke Magnanti

Living Differently

Embracing new romantic norms
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Catherine Hakim,AL Kennedy,Roger Bolton,Serena Kutchinsky

Women on Top

Gender equality and positions of power
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Catherine Hakim,Simon Glendinning,Diane Abbott,Simon Heffer

Family Futures

The rise of the post-nuclear family
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Catherine Hakim,Julian Baggini,Mark Salter,Richard Coles

Love Incorporated

Can we measure our emotions?
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Catherine Hakim,Julian Baggini,Jim Crace,Hannah Dawson

The Prejudice of Intellectuals

Beauty, intellect, and power
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Catherine Hakim,Peter Tatchell,Myriam Francois,Katherine Angel

Desiring and being desired

Navigating power in #MeToo

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Todd Gitlin

The Politics of Pleasure
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Catherine Brown

Literary Bad Sex
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Godfrey Barker

Conquer Your Love!
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What Are Love and Sex? Eight Answers from Philosophy
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John Portmann

On Being Naked and Having Sex
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Alan Goldman

Why Sexual Morality Doesn't Exist
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Thomas Dumm

Being With Others
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Laurie Penny

Sex, Lies and Revolution
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Theodore Dalrymple

Prostitution and the Right to Choose
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Olivia Laing

What Do You Do When You're Alone
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Olivia Fane

Decoupling sex
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Bella DePaulo

The Good Life in the 21st Century: Living Single
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Paula Erizanu

Zhana Vrangalova on The Science of Good Sex
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Sara Heinämaa

The Phenomenology of Desire and Orgasm
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Brooke Magnanti

Legislating Love
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Finn Mackay

The Boundaries of the Body
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Simon May

The changing face of love
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Massimo Pigliucci

Infidelity: A Stoic's Perspective
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Carol Hay

Porn and the sexual imagination
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Martin McQuillan

The Sex Lives of Philosophers
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Anders Sandberg

Manufacturing Love
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Christopher Hamilton

Divorce is the New Death
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Filipa Melo Lopes

Simone de Beauvoir on incel extremism
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Tom Digby

Dating Nietzsche: Love vs Power
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Yasmin Benoit,Saffron Morter-Laing

The Sexuality of Asexuality
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Sinan Richards

Love is close to madness
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Adelyn Moore

The unexpected intimacy of sex work
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Sam Woodward

Philosophy is an erotic endeavor
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Mark Phelan

Change your self, change your friends
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Melissa Rees,Jonathan Ichikawa

The limits of consent