Leslie W Rabine
Biographic Data
| ID | 218833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie W Rabine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie W |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabine |
| SIGNATURE | RABINE L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8166-0443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A fashionable wedding in Dakar, Senegal
A young bride and groom, Zeynab Dieng (25) and Abdoulaye Ly (28), asked me to photograph their Muslim/Peulh wedding festivities in Dakar, Senegal. Dakarois wedding celebrations centre around the bride, who demonstrates her dignity and savoir faire as a new matron by appearing in a succession of fashionable outfits. Within the Senegalese fashion system, these outfits fall into the style categories labelled ‘ethnic’, ‘pan-African’ and ‘European’. A…
Decolonizing fashion [studies] as process
In this Special Issue, we explore decolonizing fashion studies not as a destination but as non-linear process, ever revised, re-evaluated, revisited and relived. Situated within a space of self-questioning, the authors in this Special Issue embrace unresolved contradictions and unresolvable paradoxes inherent to the very being of fashion. They are participants, aware that there is no pure pre-colonial space to return to, no ‘authentic’ pre-coloni…
Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s
Photo Cameroon plunged visitors into superimposed, disparate worlds: the studios of twentieth century Cameroonian photographers and a museum installation where COVID-19 dictated the design. Even the photographers on view—Jacques Toussele (1939-2017), Joseph Chila (b. 1948), and Samuel Finlak (b. 1958)—communicated three different atmospheres and styles.Toussele, the eldest and best-known in the West, expressed an urban, adventurous style. A buzz …
African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Developed by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style” introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking…
Remapping the worldview of fashion
This ethnographic study of streetwear designers in Dakar, Senegal explores the way that five artist/designers create images of maps and relate them to concepts of ‘identity’ far different from those in western fashion discourse. The designers recode these and other concepts into a Wolof signifying system. They connect ‘identity’ and ‘tradition’ to Wolof cultural values like ‘thiossane’ and ‘askan,’ words which do not translate directly into Europ…
Film Review
Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor
Fashionable Photography in Mid-Twentieth-Century Senegal
This article explores the reciprocal transformative effects of Senegalese fashion and photography from the post-World-War-II movements for Independence to the transnational youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It draws upon photographs from a museum archive and several family collections in Senegal. Photographs as physical objects and their particular archival spaces decisively influence the way we read photographic content. They thus also inf…
Fashion by Christopher Breward
Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing
(1997). Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 145-167
Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing
Writing Women into Romanticism
Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime
Rebel daughters: Women and the French Revolution
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines many facets of the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Recent research has unearthed evidence that women of all classes participated actively in the French Revolution, demanding bread for their families, and fighting for the same rights of equality and liberty that men claimed for themselves. The authors contend that although the male leaders of the Revol…
Essentialism and Its Contexts: Saint-Simonian and Post-Structuralist Feminists
Research Article| July 01 1989 Essentialism and Its Contexts: Saint-Simonian and Post-Structuralist Feminists Leslie Rabine Leslie Rabine Leslie Wahl Rabine teaches French and women's studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1985), and “Word and Act: French Feminism in the Age of Romanticism” (Bloomington: Indiana UP, forthcoming). Search f…
A Feminist Politics of Non-Identity
Ecriture Feminine as Metaphor
W hy study the texts of an obscure nineteenth-century writer like Claire Demar? Loosely associated with the Parisian women who in 1832 organized the first modem feminist movement, Demar was a marginal even among these marginals. Alone among the writers of her period, she publicly and unambiguously theorized women's right to sexual desire and pleasure. Although her lack of education and her immersion in an exalted romantic/religious discourse give…
No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston
Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises
The establishment of patriarchy in Tristan and Isolde
Ideology and Contradiction in La Chartreuse de Parme
One problem of Marxist criticism is that, since it rejects the concept of a pure, transcendent aesthetic object, it is often accused of reducing literature to mere ideology. Yet, if ideology were seen not as a narrow set of political ideas, nor even as a specific theory grouping together concepts, but as basic forms of perception and codes of action relating a subject to the world, then an ideological analysis could, insofar as this is possible f…
Feminist Writers in French Romanticism
Decolonizing fashion [studies] as process
In this Special Issue, we explore decolonizing fashion studies not as a destination but as non-linear process, ever revised, re-evaluated, revisited and relived. Situated within a space of self-questioning, the authors in this Special Issue embrace unresolved contradictions and unresolvable paradoxes inherent to the very being of fashion. They are participants, aware that there is no pure pre-colonial space to return to, no ‘authentic’ pre-coloni…
Fashionable Photography in Mid-Twentieth-Century Senegal
This article explores the reciprocal transformative effects of Senegalese fashion and photography from the post-World-War-II movements for Independence to the transnational youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It draws upon photographs from a museum archive and several family collections in Senegal. Photographs as physical objects and their particular archival spaces decisively influence the way we read photographic content. They thus also inf…
African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Developed by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style” introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking…
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises
A Feminist Politics of Non-Identity
A fashionable wedding in Dakar, Senegal
A young bride and groom, Zeynab Dieng (25) and Abdoulaye Ly (28), asked me to photograph their Muslim/Peulh wedding festivities in Dakar, Senegal. Dakarois wedding celebrations centre around the bride, who demonstrates her dignity and savoir faire as a new matron by appearing in a succession of fashionable outfits. Within the Senegalese fashion system, these outfits fall into the style categories labelled ‘ethnic’, ‘pan-African’ and ‘European’. A…
Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing
(1997). Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 145-167
Ecriture Feminine as Metaphor
W hy study the texts of an obscure nineteenth-century writer like Claire Demar? Loosely associated with the Parisian women who in 1832 organized the first modem feminist movement, Demar was a marginal even among these marginals. Alone among the writers of her period, she publicly and unambiguously theorized women's right to sexual desire and pleasure. Although her lack of education and her immersion in an exalted romantic/religious discourse give…
No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston
Feminist Writers in French Romanticism
Ideology and Contradiction in La Chartreuse de Parme
One problem of Marxist criticism is that, since it rejects the concept of a pure, transcendent aesthetic object, it is often accused of reducing literature to mere ideology. Yet, if ideology were seen not as a narrow set of political ideas, nor even as a specific theory grouping together concepts, but as basic forms of perception and codes of action relating a subject to the world, then an ideological analysis could, insofar as this is possible f…
The establishment of patriarchy in Tristan and Isolde
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises
Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology
Ecriture Feminine as Metaphor
W hy study the texts of an obscure nineteenth-century writer like Claire Demar? Loosely associated with the Parisian women who in 1832 organized the first modem feminist movement, Demar was a marginal even among these marginals. Alone among the writers of her period, she publicly and unambiguously theorized women's right to sexual desire and pleasure. Although her lack of education and her immersion in an exalted romantic/religious discourse give…
No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston
A Feminist Politics of Non-Identity
Essentialism and Its Contexts: Saint-Simonian and Post-Structuralist Feminists
Research Article| July 01 1989 Essentialism and Its Contexts: Saint-Simonian and Post-Structuralist Feminists Leslie Rabine Leslie Rabine Leslie Wahl Rabine teaches French and women's studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1985), and “Word and Act: French Feminism in the Age of Romanticism” (Bloomington: Indiana UP, forthcoming). Search f…
Rebel daughters: Women and the French Revolution
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines many facets of the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Recent research has unearthed evidence that women of all classes participated actively in the French Revolution, demanding bread for their families, and fighting for the same rights of equality and liberty that men claimed for themselves. The authors contend that although the male leaders of the Revol…
Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime
Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing
(1997). Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 145-167
Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity, and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing
Writing Women into Romanticism
Fashion by Christopher Breward
Fashionable Photography in Mid-Twentieth-Century Senegal
This article explores the reciprocal transformative effects of Senegalese fashion and photography from the post-World-War-II movements for Independence to the transnational youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It draws upon photographs from a museum archive and several family collections in Senegal. Photographs as physical objects and their particular archival spaces decisively influence the way we read photographic content. They thus also inf…
Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor
Film Review
Remapping the worldview of fashion
This ethnographic study of streetwear designers in Dakar, Senegal explores the way that five artist/designers create images of maps and relate them to concepts of ‘identity’ far different from those in western fashion discourse. The designers recode these and other concepts into a Wolof signifying system. They connect ‘identity’ and ‘tradition’ to Wolof cultural values like ‘thiossane’ and ‘askan,’ words which do not translate directly into Europ…
African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
Developed by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style” introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa's newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking…
A fashionable wedding in Dakar, Senegal
A young bride and groom, Zeynab Dieng (25) and Abdoulaye Ly (28), asked me to photograph their Muslim/Peulh wedding festivities in Dakar, Senegal. Dakarois wedding celebrations centre around the bride, who demonstrates her dignity and savoir faire as a new matron by appearing in a succession of fashionable outfits. Within the Senegalese fashion system, these outfits fall into the style categories labelled ‘ethnic’, ‘pan-African’ and ‘European’. A…
Decolonizing fashion [studies] as process
In this Special Issue, we explore decolonizing fashion studies not as a destination but as non-linear process, ever revised, re-evaluated, revisited and relived. Situated within a space of self-questioning, the authors in this Special Issue embrace unresolved contradictions and unresolvable paradoxes inherent to the very being of fashion. They are participants, aware that there is no pure pre-colonial space to return to, no ‘authentic’ pre-coloni…
Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s
Photo Cameroon plunged visitors into superimposed, disparate worlds: the studios of twentieth century Cameroonian photographers and a museum installation where COVID-19 dictated the design. Even the photographers on view—Jacques Toussele (1939-2017), Joseph Chila (b. 1948), and Samuel Finlak (b. 1958)—communicated three different atmospheres and styles.Toussele, the eldest and best-known in the West, expressed an urban, adventurous style. A buzz …
Art (19 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (7 works)