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Footnotes


Cf. Nancy M. Henley, in Body politics: power, sex and non-verbal communication, it has often been observed that women fulfil a cathartic and quasi­ therapeutic function of regulating men's emotional lives, calming their anger, helping them to accept the injustices and difficulties of life.

Drives and desires politically socialized

Sexual exchanges of the bureaucratic universe, particularly between managers and secretaries (cf. Rosemary Pringle, Secretaries Talk: Sexuality, Power and Work) and as the cynical, instrumental use of female charm as a means of access to power (cf. J. Pinto, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales).

Unbearable weight: feminism, western culture and the body 
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Cosmetic which absorb much time, money and energy (differentially between classes), encounter their limiting case in cosmetic surgery, which has become a vast industry in the United States (with a million and a half clients a year).