Book Review: What Is Sexual Capital? Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz. Polity Books. 2022.
by Sevde Nur Unal
In What is Sexual Capital, Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz (2022) present a thought-provoking debate around a sociological metaphor, namely sexual capital. The authors mainly argue that sexuality can function as a type of capital when it operates as a way to achieve a variety of (historically-specific) benefits, from economic gains in the commercial sex industry to […]