Participant Info
- First Name
- Deborah
- Last Name
- Madden
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- d.madden@lancaster.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Lancaster University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Iberian feminisms, socialist women, socialist feminisms, sexual violence, feminist legislation, women and the law, politics of reproduction, famine, hunger memory, women's writing
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Dr Deborah Madden is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern Spain, specialising in Iberian feminisms, women’s writing, collective memory, and the medical humanities. Central to her academic work are the intersections of sex, culture, and political history, with a particular focus on women on the political left, female sexuality, the body, affect, and trauma.
- Recent Publications
- Monograph
2022: Matilde de la Torre: Sex, Socialism and Suffrage in Republican Spain (Oxford: Legenda)Reviewed in: Revista de Estudios Históricos (2023), International Journal of Iberian Studies (2024)
Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals
2023: ‘“Sólo te voy a decir”: Sexual Trauma in Consuelo García’s Las cárceles de Soledad Real (1982)’, Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 9(1-2): 1-242022: ‘“Modalidades de violación” in Lidia Falcón’s En el infierno: mujeres en las cárceles franquistas (1977)’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 35(1): 41-582021: ‘Patriarchal Politics in Pre-Civil War Spain: Prostitution in Ángela Graupera’s Anarcho-feminist Novellas’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 98(4): 375-942021: ‘Marx’s Minerva: Sex, Socialism and Soviet Russia in Matilde de la Torre’s El banquete de Saturno (1931)’, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 22(1): 39-57
Chapters in edited books
2021: ‘El pensamiento republicano-feminista en Portugal (1900-1926)’, Una nueva historia de los feminismos ibéricos, ed. by Silvia Bermúdez (Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch), pp. 285-942021: ‘La Primera República portuguesa, un gobierno feminista (1910-1926)’, Una nueva historia de los feminismos ibéricos, ed. by Silvia Bermúdez (Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch), pp. 277-84
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @drDMadden
- Country Focus
- Spain
- Expertise by Geography
- Spain, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Food History, Gender, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Human Rights, Law, Literary History, Medicine, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
