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Reina Lewis
Researcher at University of the Arts London
Publications - 51
Citations - 1848
Reina Lewis is an academic researcher from University of the Arts London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Feminism & Islam. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 49 publications receiving 1799 citations. Previous affiliations of Reina Lewis include University of East London & University of Delaware.
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Feminist Postcolonial Theory : A Reader
Reina Lewis,Sara Mills +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethinking Whiteness," "Redefining the 'Third World' Subject," "Sexuality and Sexual Rights," "Harem and the Veil," and "Gender and Post/colonial Relations." A bibliography complements the wide-ranging essays.
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Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation
TL;DR: In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on the contributions of women themselves Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other ''lost' women Orientlist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, Reina Lewis challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze.
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Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem
TL;DR: Rethinking Orientalism as discussed by the authors provides the first monograph on English-language books by Ottoman women from the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on how the Ottoman women intervened in local debates about female emancipation.
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Veils and Sales: Muslims and the spaces of postcolonial fashion retail
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the presence of veiled assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing, linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity) and connecting recent international Muslim lifestyle consumer cultures to gendered consumption in the development of Middle Eastern modernities.