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Abused Bodies: Magdalene Asylums and the Restitution of Fallen Women through Fiction and Popular Culture
(UMA Editorial, 2021-09)La presente tesis está dedicada al estudio de los Asilos de Magdalenas, creados durante el siglo XVII y destinados a mujeres que al encontrarse en una situación desfavorable no se adaptaban al código moral que la Iglesia ... -
Bodies in Transit: Re-thinking vulnerability and resistance in post-colonial neo-Victorian literature and culture
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel
(2019-11-18)
The aim of my participation in this round table is to make an approach to an analysis of contemporary historical fiction through the lens of theories of vulnerability and resistance. In particular, I would like to address ... -
Cambridge Female Refuge Rules (1838-1844): An Institution for "Females Who Have Been Leading a Sinful Course of Life"
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2019-06-25)
The Cambridge Female Refuge was an institution established in Cambridge Church Street in 1838 as a House of Mercy for the moral rescue of fallen women. Prostitution was a serious preoccupation at the time for both town and ... -
Cambridge Prostitution and the Rules Governing the University Spinning House in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2017-04-19)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
Death in the Spinning House: Cambridge Prostitution and University Regulations by the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2016-04-19)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
Detective Fiction and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2014-09-30)
In his third Inspector Decimus Webb novel, a detective from Scotland Yard, Jackson Lee re-appropriates the crime-fiction genre to portray several stories of gender abuse and violence. Several women become the victims of ... -
“Domesticating ‘Fallen Women’: Gender Violence and Detection in Lee Jackson’s A Metropolitan Murder (2004)”
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2022-09-12)
Poverty and prostitution were some of the most important concerns for the Victorian mind and lots of associations and charities were established by the middle-class who tried to put an end to what was known as the “Great ... -
Genders, mobilities, and interdependencies: the aims and theoretical background of bodies in transit
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2018-11-12)
The aim of this round table is to present an overview of the aims, research topics and theoretical framework of the new project “Bodies in Transit 2: Genders, Mobilities, and Interdependencies”. This project has connections ... -
“Kate Williams’s The Pleasures of Men" (2012): mental disorder, trauma, resilience
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2018-07-04)
Violence against women has been an important issue for neo-Victorian studies. Women’s bodies and minds have been the object of violence in Victorian times and historical fiction echoes traumas from the past that need ... -
Memory frictions and reconciliation: Neo-victorian gothic and gender violence in Katy Darby’s The Whores’ Asylum (2012)
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2015-05-11)
Katy Derby’s first novel, The Whores’ Asylum (2012), is an attempt to deal with the issue of prostitution and rescue work in Oxford in the 1880s. Jericho is an area where, away from the prestigious university colleges, ... -
Neo-Victorian Wasted Lives and Detection in Lee Jackson’s A Metropolitan Murder (2004).
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
In one of his seminal works, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Oucasts (2004), Zygmunt Bauman defines the idea of “wasted lives” as a ripple of modernity creating the figure of “the outcast”. According to him, the production ... -
Prostitution, identity and the Neo-Victorian: Sarah Waters’ tipping the Velvet and the Ripper Street Series.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2014-09-30)
The analysis of sexual abuse and violence in two Neo-Victorian literary and visual productions, Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1999) and the BBC’s drama series Ripper Street (2012) will be the object of discussion in ... -
The Last Ten Years in the Bristish Education System
(Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacion Cientifica, 2015)Después de la Segunda Guerra mundial, Gran Bretaña se encontró con una escasez de trabajadores cualificados sin precedente. El problema más importante era como animar a la población más joven a continuar su educación ya ... -
The London Lock Charities in the middle to late Victorian Period: poor reform beyond venereal disease
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2015-05-11)
The London Lock Hospital was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century to cure venereal disease both in men and women, following the trend of specialized hospitals that proliferated in the period. A few decades ... -
Town and gown prostitution Cambridge’s architecture of containment of sexual deviance
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (Peter Lang, 2022-10-19)
This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and ... -
Trauma after a life of torture in irish Magdalene laundries: Magdalene survivors’ testimonies and Patricia Burke-Brogan’s Stained Glass at Samhain
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel; Cantueso Urbano, Elena Maria (Routledge, 2023-01)
In 2007 James Smith coined the phrase “Ireland’s architecture of containment” referring to the conspiracy of silence Ireland had been immersed since the last decades of the twentieth century concerning institutional abuse ... -
Victorian Pornography versus Contemporary Pornography: Belinda Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage (2008) and Women’s Agency and Emancipation.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2016-11-16)
Pornography is and has been a contentious issue in the Victorian past and in our contemporary societies, and the role of women in the business has been very much discussed by Victorian and contemporary critics and academics ... -
Women’s Bodies and Emotions: Desertion, Illegitimacy and the Cambridge Union Workhouse in the late Victorian period.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
Cambridge Union Workhouse was built a mile away from the city, surrounded by fields to avoid any interference with members of the University or with commercial life. The site was located at 81A, Milton Road, quite close ...