If you want to read a book that will at some point say something that you disagree with, look no further.
Basically, Hakim has a framework and wants to fit the world into this framework.
Okay, short version: I had high hopes for this book.
A beautiful family story that ends in a shower of sperm! On the contrary, currencies of capital are quite variable, acquiring a hegemonic status in relation to the erotic preferences of highly specialized social groups that distinguish one from another.
Does this sort of tripe even merit publication and by respectable publishers, no less.
The effect she describes is more accurately called "charisma", and has mostly to do with skill at dressing oneself and knowing how to behave in social situations.
But other parts of the book do seem to get a little more difficult to follow.
She also makes a number of assumptions as to why erotic capital has not been fully articulated.