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Beauty, Whiteness, and Desire: Media, Consumption, and Embodiment in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

Farha Ghannam
Farha Ghannam*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., USA; e-mail: fghanna1@swarthmore.edu
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What is the relationship among gender, embodiment, and consumption? How does the media constitute consumers, desires, and subjectivities? How are we to conceptualize the role of media representations in the making of bodies and selves without granting these representations a deterministic power? These questions were central to my anthropological work on the embodiment of femininities and masculinities in a low-income neighborhood in northern Cairo.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , November 2008 , pp. 544 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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NOTES

1 Al Shabab, September 2006, 60.

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