Author: Basyouny, Iman Farid
Title: Just a Gaze : Female Clientele of Diet Clinics in Cairo : An Ethnomedical Study
Description: Cairo, American University Press, (1998). orig. wrappers. ix,150 pp,, 21x14cm,Series: Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 20, Number 4.. A small removed-label-mark to cover. Minor rubbing.VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Prologue: The Anthropology of the Body; The Female Body & the Sexual Politics of Health & Healing; The Female Body & Patriarchy: Cultural Backround; "Waist-ing Away": A Global Obsession; " Medicalization" of the Female Body & "Feminization" of Dieting; Dieting & the Politics of Health & Healing...Conceptual Framework: Femininity and Discourse; Western Orientations: Western Perceptions of the Body, Health & Healing Systems; Western Feminist Scholarship on the "Tyranny of Slenderness"; Discourses & Scholarship in the Arab World: Feminist Scholarship on Woman & Health in the Arab World; Arab Feminist Critique in Woman's Body; The Female Body in Arabo-Muslim Discourses...In the Field: The Phenomenological Approach; Interpreting Women's Lives; Participant Observation; Ethnography Playing By the Rules: Writing Women's Bodies; Medical Hegemony: The Medical Construction of Social & Social-Scientific Understanding of Obesity & Dieting; The Standardization of Ideality & the Feminization of Dieting; The Hazards of Slimming Down; The Clinic; Obesity:An Ethnomedical Paradigm; The Medicalization of Religion; The Displacement of Social Etiology; Dieting; Heavy vs. Light; The Modernization of Patriarchy; Femininity as Discourse; She is the Body or No-Body; Language as Discourse; The Gaze: Gender/Power Dynamics...Analysis:Reading the Text: Trespassing Boundaries; Appendices.

Keywords: Modern Egypt, Ethnomedicine Women, Egyptian Feminism, Critical Theory, Feminist Criticism, Egypt Women's Diet, Gender Dieting Arab, Weight Loss Clinics, Slimming Sociology, Anthropology