R Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 14413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Arts London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5359-3976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 424 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Publication Information
Impact of Reach Centralities on Urban Accessibility and Connectivity: Insights from Iraq
Despite extensive research on spatial accessibility and connectivity, the specific role of reach centralities in differentiating areas with varying connectivity levels remains under-explored. In this context, this study examines the influence of reach centralities on the accessibility and connectivity of urban areas. It focuses on the Old Rusafa area in Baghdad, Iraq. Its aim is to determine if there is a correlation between reach centralities an…
Aesthetic Labor in Religious Contexts: Women Encountering Modest Dress in the Workplace in the UK and Saudi Arabia
This article explores how UK women encounter religious dress and behavior codes in religious work contexts. It compares two very different case studies: women working at faith-based organizations in the UK and women working for secular organizations who travel for work to Saudi Arabia. Using 65 semi-structured interviews, participant wardrobe photographs, and observation in regional modest fashion retail, the article analyzes women workers’ exper…
Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women's Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK
This article explores how women in religious workplaces respond to organizational norms of and requirements for modest dress and behavior, both implicit and explicit. It compares two case studies: women working for faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the UK, and women working for secular organizations who travel for work to Saudi Arabia, where the state requirement to dress modesty meant wearing an abaya (slightly relaxed in 2019). Data come from…
Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace
The international community is too often focused on responding to the latest cyber-attack instead of addressing the reality of pervasive and persistent cyber conflict. From ransomware against the city government of Baltimore to state-sponsored campaigns targeting electrical grids in Ukraine and the U.S., we seem to have relatively little bandwidth left over to ask what we can hope for in terms of 'peace' on the Internet, and how to get there. It'…
Chapter 1. From Multiculture to Multifaith: Consumer Culture and the Organization of Rights and Resources
Muslim Fashion, Youth and Belonging: An Interview with Reina Lewis
An Interview with Reina Lewis
The Harem: Gendering Orientalism
Much of the work that sought to redress the masculinist approach of Said’s original polemic Orientalism took the harem as a starting point. The harem 1 – and its mobile corollary the veil 2 – was, I argued in 1996, the pivot of the Western Orientalist fantasy. 3 While many accepted Said’s central tenet that Orientalist knowledges and cultural forms served to produce a situational superiority for the West in which the East was rendered as feminize…
Modest Body Politics: The Commercial and Ideological Intersect of Fat, Black, and Muslim in the Modest Fashion Market and Media
Discrimination and exclusion because of body size and race is endemic in the globalized fashion industry and its media, despite that consumer activism on both fronts has led to some progress in market offer, industry practice, and regimes of representation. That both size and race inequities are present in the Muslim modest fashion industry and media is not surprising; the niche modest fashion industry cross-faith will inevitably reproduce some c…
Round Table: Queer Lifestyles, Politics and Curating Now
These three thought-provoking pieces were originally conceived of as a tri-partite round table discussion at the end of our conference ‘Exploring Queer Cultures and Lifestyles in the Creative Arts
Introduction: Queer Visual Historiographies
This introduction 'Queer Historiographies' is for a special issue of Visual Culture in Britain, 2017, 18(1): pp.1-17, co-written and co-edited by Andrew Stephenson and Reina Lewis
Seeing, recording and discussing LGBTQ fashion and style
‘At the site of intimacy’: An interview with Campbell X, January 2015
This article is an edited transcript of a conversation between Reina Lewis and film maker Campbell X recorded in London in 2015. The interview focuses on the racial, gender, and sexual politics of filmic representation and film production. A multi-award winning QTIPOC (queer trans intersex person of colour) filmmaker, based in London, Campbell’s work has been instrumental in the development of queer British cinema. Centring on Campbell’s 2012 fea…
Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures
Uncovering Modesty: Dejabis and Dewigies Expanding the Parameters of the Modest Fashion Blogosphere
Since the early 2000s modest fashion blogs and social media and related e-commerce have constituted a zone of women-led fashion mediation fostering dialogue within and across faiths and between religious and secular practitioners. Premised on a discourse of modest fashion as individual choice rather than compulsion, modest fashion incorporates style considerations into the quotidian practices of “everyday religion” characterized by blending, sync…
Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation
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.Gendering Orientalis…
Francis Bacon, Allegory and the Uses of Myth
In his De sapientia veterum (1609), Francis Bacon offered interpretations of thirty-one classical fables. In describing the foundations on which these rested, Bacon explained that he viewed ancient mythology as a kind of allegory, or what he called ‘poesy parabolicall’. Though the works of Homer or Hesiod were meaningless and often absurd as surface narrative, to read them with due sensitivity would reveal the wisdom of antiquity on subjects incl…
Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers
There is a fundamental, powerful, and universal desire amongst humans to interact with others. People have a deep-seated need to communicate, and the greater their ability in this regard the more satisfying and rewarding their lives will be. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. As such, knowledge of various types of skills…
Marketing Muslim Lifestyle
Recently developed to serve the consumption needs of an emergent Islamic bourgeoisie, English-language Muslim lifestyle media depart from previous community media by including fashion as an integral part of the genre. Creating fashion editorial brings lifestyle publications up against internal debates about the representation of the female body and concepts of modesty. Central to this is the problem of what Muslim looks like, or what looks Muslim…
Historians, Critics and Historicists
WRITING in the first portion of his Essai sur l’étude de la littérature (1761), the young Edward Gibbon lamented that the categories of the érudit and the philosophe no longer cohered as they had only decades before. The scholar was excluded from philosophical discourse by virtue of his dustily monomaniacal antiquarianism, while the philosopher had little or no interest in the scholarly traditions that, to him, manifested the deadening weight of …
Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail
Linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity), this article analyzes the presence of veiled assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing. In the anxious days after the 2005 bombs, the veiled body working in West End fashion retail moved through the postcolonial city in a series of fluid dress acts whose meanings were only partially legible to her different audiences. Connecting recen…
Racial Identity Matters: The Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning in African American Adolescents
This study examines the interrelationships among racial discrimination, racial identity, and psychological functioning in a sample of 314 African American adolescents. Racial discrimination was associated with lower levels of psychological functioning as measured by perceived stress, depressive symptomatology, and psychological well‐being. Although individuals who believe that other groups hold more negative attitudes toward African Americans (lo…
Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem
The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking has recently been challenged, Western understandings of Middle Eastern culture remain limited. This book presents alternative dialogues between Ottoman and Western women. Lewis examines, from the position of cultural theory, the published autobiographical accounts about s…
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (review)
Reviewed by: Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography Reina Lewis Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography. Edited by Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. This wide-ranging collection of essays in visual culture is a most welcome contribution to the field of postcolonial studies, brilliantly inserting the often overlooked category of the visual into the ana…
Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader
The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it. The volume seeks to open up the field by juxtaposing a number of contested subjects. Readings cover a range of geographical regions including: South-east Asia, India, Africa, Latin Am…
Racial Identity Matters: The Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning in African American Adolescents
This study examines the interrelationships among racial discrimination, racial identity, and psychological functioning in a sample of 314 African American adolescents. Racial discrimination was associated with lower levels of psychological functioning as measured by perceived stress, depressive symptomatology, and psychological well‐being. Although individuals who believe that other groups hold more negative attitudes toward African Americans (lo…
Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail
Linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity), this article analyzes the presence of veiled assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing. In the anxious days after the 2005 bombs, the veiled body working in West End fashion retail moved through the postcolonial city in a series of fluid dress acts whose meanings were only partially legible to her different audiences. Connecting recen…
Marketing Muslim Lifestyle
Recently developed to serve the consumption needs of an emergent Islamic bourgeoisie, English-language Muslim lifestyle media depart from previous community media by including fashion as an integral part of the genre. Creating fashion editorial brings lifestyle publications up against internal debates about the representation of the female body and concepts of modesty. Central to this is the problem of what Muslim looks like, or what looks Muslim…
Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery
This paper is concerned with the different forms of pleasure and identification activated in the consumption of dominant and subcultural print media. It centres on an analysis of the lesbian visual pleasures generated through the reading of fashion editorial in the new lesbian and gay lifestyle magazines. This consideration of the lesbian gaze is contrasted to the lesbian visual pleasures obtained from an against the grain reading of mainstream w…
Uncovering Modesty: Dejabis and Dewigies Expanding the Parameters of the Modest Fashion Blogosphere
Since the early 2000s modest fashion blogs and social media and related e-commerce have constituted a zone of women-led fashion mediation fostering dialogue within and across faiths and between religious and secular practitioners. Premised on a discourse of modest fashion as individual choice rather than compulsion, modest fashion incorporates style considerations into the quotidian practices of “everyday religion” characterized by blending, sync…
Modest Body Politics: The Commercial and Ideological Intersect of Fat, Black, and Muslim in the Modest Fashion Market and Media
Discrimination and exclusion because of body size and race is endemic in the globalized fashion industry and its media, despite that consumer activism on both fronts has led to some progress in market offer, industry practice, and regimes of representation. That both size and race inequities are present in the Muslim modest fashion industry and media is not surprising; the niche modest fashion industry cross-faith will inevitably reproduce some c…
Only women should go to Turkey’ Henriette Browne and women's orientalism
(1993). ‘Only women should go to Turkey’ Henriette Browne and women's orientalism. Third Text: Vol. 7, No. 22, pp. 53-64
Aesthetic Labor in Religious Contexts: Women Encountering Modest Dress in the Workplace in the UK and Saudi Arabia
This article explores how UK women encounter religious dress and behavior codes in religious work contexts. It compares two very different case studies: women working at faith-based organizations in the UK and women working for secular organizations who travel for work to Saudi Arabia. Using 65 semi-structured interviews, participant wardrobe photographs, and observation in regional modest fashion retail, the article analyzes women workers’ exper…
Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women's Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK
This article explores how women in religious workplaces respond to organizational norms of and requirements for modest dress and behavior, both implicit and explicit. It compares two case studies: women working for faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the UK, and women working for secular organizations who travel for work to Saudi Arabia, where the state requirement to dress modesty meant wearing an abaya (slightly relaxed in 2019). Data come from…
Women orientalist artists: Diversity, ethnography, interpretation
Come to me baby or what's wrong with lesbian sm
On veiling, vision and voyage: Cross-cultural dressing and narratives of identity
This article is concerned with the changing significance of the veil in Turkey in the early years of the twentieth century. Its discussion of the political significance of women's dress in a period of accelerated social change is conducted through the analysis of two illustrated books, one by a visiting English feminist and one by a Turkish woman who writes about life in Turkey and her travels in Europe. In this way, the debate about the veil is …
Dis-Graceful Images: Della Grace and Lesbian Sado-Masochism
In 1991 GMP published a book of Della Grace's lesbian erotic photographs called Love Bites that became instantly controversial when some feminist bookstores refused to stock it because of its explicit sexual and sado-masochistic content. Since 1991, Della Grace has gone on to achieve a prominent profile in lesbian and gay culture (with photographs regularly appearing in the pink press and exhibitions in trendy London venues). In this article I am…
Classroom Control Techniques of Good Teachers: A Norwegian study
(1983). Classroom Control Techniques of Good Teachers: a Norwegian study. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 157-165
Evolutionary changes in the environment, population, and health affairs in Detroit, 1968-1971
Evolutionary changes in the environment, population, and health affairs in Detroit, 1968-1971. R Lewis, and L ChadzynskiCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.6.557 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Classroom Control Techniques of Good Teachers: A Norwegian study
(1983). Classroom Control Techniques of Good Teachers: a Norwegian study. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 157-165
A neglected issue in language policy in Australia: The students' view
The Communist Party and Soviet science
Journal Article The Communist Party and Soviet science Get access The Communist Party and Soviet science. By Stephen Fortescue. London: Macmillan for Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. 1987. 234pp. Index. £27.50. ISBN 0 333 39419 4. R. Lewis R. Lewis 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, autumn 1987, Page 693, h…
Only women should go to Turkey’ Henriette Browne and women's orientalism
(1993). ‘Only women should go to Turkey’ Henriette Browne and women's orientalism. Third Text: Vol. 7, No. 22, pp. 53-64
Come to me baby or what's wrong with lesbian sm
Dis-Graceful Images: Della Grace and Lesbian Sado-Masochism
In 1991 GMP published a book of Della Grace's lesbian erotic photographs called Love Bites that became instantly controversial when some feminist bookstores refused to stock it because of its explicit sexual and sado-masochistic content. Since 1991, Della Grace has gone on to achieve a prominent profile in lesbian and gay culture (with photographs regularly appearing in the pink press and exhibitions in trendy London venues). In this article I am…
HIV agencies: Can they evaluate their own services
This paper describes the development and implementation of self-evaluation methods and guidelines in non-statutory HIV agencies that have been funded by Lothian Health. Two researchers developed this work under the aegis of the Lothian Health Centre for HIV/AIDS and Drug Studies (CHADS). It was implemented in eight agencies providing a diverse range of services. The methodology used included seminars, interviews, and self-evaluation report bookle…
Women orientalist artists: Diversity, ethnography, interpretation
Social Text 37 (Winter 1993)
Starting over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique
For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other forms of cultural criticism, including Marxist, post-Marxist, new historicist, and cultural materialist approaches, as well as cultural studies.The essays in Starting Over …
Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery
This paper is concerned with the different forms of pleasure and identification activated in the consumption of dominant and subcultural print media. It centres on an analysis of the lesbian visual pleasures generated through the reading of fashion editorial in the new lesbian and gay lifestyle magazines. This consideration of the lesbian gaze is contrasted to the lesbian visual pleasures obtained from an against the grain reading of mainstream w…
Consuming Cultures
On veiling, vision and voyage: Cross-cultural dressing and narratives of identity
This article is concerned with the changing significance of the veil in Turkey in the early years of the twentieth century. Its discussion of the political significance of women's dress in a period of accelerated social change is conducted through the analysis of two illustrated books, one by a visiting English feminist and one by a Turkish woman who writes about life in Turkey and her travels in Europe. In this way, the debate about the veil is …
Substance use and unsafe sex amongst homosexual men in Edinburgh
A self-reported behaviour survey using an anonymous critical incident based questionnaire was administered by trained interviewers in 1998. Five hundred and thirty-one homosexual and bisexual men were recruited from gay bars, clubs, cafes, a sauna and 'cruising ground' in central Edinburgh. The use of alcohol and recreational drugs and details of sexual activity over the preceding three months and at the last sexual encounter were recorded. Unsaf…
An immigration policy for the European Union
An Immigration Policy for the European Union Get access Richard Lewis Richard Lewis Deputy Head of Unit, Immigration and Asylum, Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs, Commission of the European Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 2, January 2001, Pages 40–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/20.2.40 Published: 01 January 2001
The publication of John Wilkins's Essay (1668): Some contextual considerations
John Wilkins's Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language was published in 1668. It was an attempt to institute an artificial language based on the order of things, and was expected to contribute to improved scientific practice, to facilitate inter–linguistic communication and to ameliorate religious controversy. Wilkins was a founding member of The Royal Society, and the Essay was published under its imprimatur. The printer to T…
Feminism and Orientalism
Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader
The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it. The volume seeks to open up the field by juxtaposing a number of contested subjects. Readings cover a range of geographical regions including: South-east Asia, India, Africa, Latin Am…
Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem
The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking has recently been challenged, Western understandings of Middle Eastern culture remain limited. This book presents alternative dialogues between Ottoman and Western women. Lewis examines, from the position of cultural theory, the published autobiographical accounts about s…
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (review)
Reviewed by: Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography Reina Lewis Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography. Edited by Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. This wide-ranging collection of essays in visual culture is a most welcome contribution to the field of postcolonial studies, brilliantly inserting the often overlooked category of the visual into the ana…
Racial Identity Matters: The Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning in African American Adolescents
This study examines the interrelationships among racial discrimination, racial identity, and psychological functioning in a sample of 314 African American adolescents. Racial discrimination was associated with lower levels of psychological functioning as measured by perceived stress, depressive symptomatology, and psychological well‐being. Although individuals who believe that other groups hold more negative attitudes toward African Americans (lo…
Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail
Linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity), this article analyzes the presence of veiled assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and ethnicizing. In the anxious days after the 2005 bombs, the veiled body working in West End fashion retail moved through the postcolonial city in a series of fluid dress acts whose meanings were only partially legible to her different audiences. Connecting recen…
Francis Bacon, Allegory and the Uses of Myth
In his De sapientia veterum (1609), Francis Bacon offered interpretations of thirty-one classical fables. In describing the foundations on which these rested, Bacon explained that he viewed ancient mythology as a kind of allegory, or what he called ‘poesy parabolicall’. Though the works of Homer or Hesiod were meaningless and often absurd as surface narrative, to read them with due sensitivity would reveal the wisdom of antiquity on subjects incl…
Skilled Interpersonal Communication: Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers
There is a fundamental, powerful, and universal desire amongst humans to interact with others. People have a deep-seated need to communicate, and the greater their ability in this regard the more satisfying and rewarding their lives will be. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. As such, knowledge of various types of skills…
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