A Study of the Components of Sexual Capital in Al-Taliani's Novel by Shokri Al-Mabkhout from Katherine Hakim's Perspective

The theory of sexual capital is a kind of social capital and one of the new theories in the field of contemporary sociology and social studies. This theory was proposed by Katherine Hakim in 2011. He considers sexual capital to have an important role in power relations at different levels of society. According to him, this type of capital has six components that have different functions and concepts in different cultures and environments; On the other hand, literature, including fiction and novels, play a major role in reflecting the culture of society, roles, values, ideas and beliefs, and fiction and novels in Arabic literature are no exception. Accordingly, in this research, based on Hakim's theory, an attempt has been made to study the components of sexual capital in the novel of Al-Taliani Shukri Al-Makhkhot, the famous Tunisian author. The results showed that based on the components of Catherine's sexual capital, categories of beauty (such as cultural taste, personal personality, social energy), vitality and sexual attractiveness among women, as well as categories of sexual attractiveness and social components among Men have a high frequency and are important, and the author also highlights sexuality and its components between both male and female characters in the novel.