Gail Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Psychotherapist, researcher |
| Academic background | |
| Education | London School of Economics University of Sussex |
| Alma mater | Open University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychoanalysis |
| Institutions | Birkbeck College Open University Lancaster University |
| Main interests | black feminism; subjectivity; intersectionality |
Gail Lewis (born 1951)[1] is a British writer, psychotherapist, researcher, and activist. She is visiting senior fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics,[2] and Reader Emerita of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College.[3] She trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.[2]
Lewis's work is rooted in black feminist and anti-racist struggle, and a socialist, anti-imperialist politics. She was a co-founder of the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD),[4][5] and she was a member of the Brixton Black Women's Group.[6] She was a founding collective editorial member of the Feminist Review.[7] Lewis was interviewed for the oral history project "Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation", archived at the British Library, a project that interviewed "feminists who were at the forefront of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 80s".[8]
- ^ Lewis, Gail (1 January 2009). "Birthing Racial Difference: conversations with my mother and others". Studies in the Maternal. 1 (1): 1–21. doi:10.16995/sim.112. ISSN 1759-0434.
- ^ a b "Gail Lewis". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Dr Gail Lewis – Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London". www.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Olufemi, Lola (16 April 2020). "Feminism, Interrupted: A Conversation with Lola Olufemi and Momtaza Mehri | Blog". London Review Bookshop. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "OWAAD". www.bl.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Gail Lewis discusses Brixton Black Women's Group". The British Library. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ Evans, Mary (24 February 2016). Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-00823-1.
- ^ "Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the Women's Liberation Movement". The British Library. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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