Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz Editor & Author

Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz is Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, and contemporary gender and sexual identity issues. She has published extensively and her edited or co-edited volumes include Identity, Migration and Women’s Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression (2009), Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body (2011) and Women’s Identities and Bodies in Colonial and Postcolonial History and Literature (2012).