Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… of anxiety – the latter both in relation to intrusions of touch, infelicities and immodesties of discourse. High social status might protect against such intrusions if appropriately signaled, both (differentially) to those of lesser and of … equal rank. Women further down the social scale faced a triple problem of rapaciousness from above, from within their status circles, and the need to command compliance from those they regarded as owing them some deference. And it seems … the affections of the opposite sex. 14 Kames and Millar were silent on the persistent impact of differences of class and status, which continued to license a degree of predatory conduct between male gallants and women with little protection. …
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