{"product_id":"town-and-gown-prostitution-cambridges-architecture-of-containment-of-sexual-deviance-paperback","title":"Town and Gown Prostitution: Cambridge's Architecture of Containment of Sexual Deviance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Isabel Romero Ruiz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 regulation of promiscuity and venereal disease. Among them were the Cambridge Union Workhouse, the Cambridge Female Refuge, the Spinning House (Cambridge University Female Prison) or the town and county gaols. Also, data from the census and local and state regulations are of great relevance in the approach to the study of the  Great Social Evil  and its consequences for Victorian Cambridge. The city was divided into  town and gown  at the time, with the University having its power and regulation over all its premises through the Vice-Chancellor's Court and its system of proctors, while the town council regulated the areas belonging to the city itself through the police. Therefore, University authorities, evangelicals and the middle-class joined their efforts to put an end to immorality, building Cambridge's architecture of containment of sexual deviance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Isabel Romero Ruiz\u003c\/strong\u003e (MA University of Southampton, PhD University of Granada) is currently a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga (Spain). She has specialised in the social and cultural history of deviant women and the history of sexuality in Victorian England, although her research interests have since expanded to contemporary gender and sexual identity issues and postcolonialism in Neo-Victorian fiction. Her publications include numerous chapters of books and articles in journals, and she has edited and coedited several international volumes. She is also the author of the monograph \u003ci\u003eThe London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform \u003c\/i\u003e(Peter Lang, 2014). Her most recent publication is the co-edition \u003ci\u003eCultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eto the Anglosphere \u003c\/i\u003e(2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47473469456562,"sku":"9781789977899","price":109.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/dfe16b083db0038e3497ae9801c00d13.webp?v=1779128271","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/town-and-gown-prostitution-cambridges-architecture-of-containment-of-sexual-deviance-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}