Those women accused of collaborating with the Nazis in the course of the French Occupation in WWII had their heads shorn and were publicly paraded in shame through the streets.
Source: German Federal Archives, Summer 1944/Unknown photographer/Wikimedia Commons
One scene within the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street became a “microcosm for the themes of debauchery and debasement” experienced by some women who worked within the financial world of the Nineteen Nineties (Calautti, 2014). A young worker, amidst the sexually charged, orgiastic atmosphere of your entire trading floor, consents to have her head shorn publicly in exchange for the $10,000 she...
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