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La colección de ensayos Espacios de Género examina los múltiples modos en que el espacio contrib... more La colección de ensayos Espacios de Género examina los múltiples modos en que el espacio contribuye a configurar la construcción del género, o bien las fórmulas en que una cierta concepción genérica se plasma en una visión o uso específico del entorno. La relación entre el espacio y el género se antoja variada y multiforme, como lo son también los diversos ensayos que conforman la colección, organizados en torno a tres esferas de acción: el universo socio-político, tanto en cuanto a teorías y prácticas como a medios de comunicación e instituciones; el ámbito educativo; y finalmente, el discurso artístico, particularmente el terreno cinematográfico, escénico y literario.

This book gives a comprehensive understanding of gender in an international context. By focusing ... more This book gives a comprehensive understanding of gender in an international context. By focusing on diverse and varied critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors. The book brings together different analytical tools in order to provide a map of how gender experiences are understood and/or represented in the arts and society. By analyzing focal/local experiences of gender on a global context, the contributions to this volume create a continuum in which gender and experience stand at a crossroads within the arts. Moreover, this crossroads intersects with the cultural determinations that some of the contributors explore in a critical way. Consequently, this volume is a necessary contribution to the new maps of gender that are being set for the future.

Articles by Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides

European Journal of English Studies, Dec 29, 2024

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This article dwells on Sarah Ahmed’s notion of “affective relationality” and her suggestion that empathy involves the subject’s reaction to the pain of others and willingness to be affected by it. Such postulates are used to explore Small Things like These (2021), the latest novel by the acclaimed Irish writer Claire Keegan. I contend that the book contributes significantly to demand an imperative culture of feminist empathy towards former inmates of the Magdalen Laundries system in Ireland and their ongoing predicaments. This is achieved through the protagonist’s constant uneasiness for how responding proactively to injustice and to the suffering of the Magdalen Other may destabilise his own well-being and that of his family. Ireland’s culture of empathy is, thus, sharply cross-examined by means of a critique of the many fallacies of the moral order against which the story is projected. My analysis focuses on the complexity of affects addressed in the text, where interpersonal encounters and intersubjective identification between the empathetic subject and the object of empathy are foregrounded as relevant for the achievement of a more ethically sustainable society that transcends the temporal framework of the novel.

Estudios Irlandeses, 2020

This article offers an examination of Benjamin Black's Quirke series through an ecocritical lens.... more This article offers an examination of Benjamin Black's Quirke series through an ecocritical lens. Set against the backdrop of 1950s Dublin, the texts feature a pathologist who investigates the murder of the victims that end at the morgue of the Holy Family Hospital. I contend that by exhaustively mapping the city through its crimes, the author hints at the far-reaching web of criminal actions executed and sanctioned by different agents of authority and violence. Similarly, I also claim that the author consistently draws on the notions of coexistence and interdependence to construct the personality of the protagonist, as the narrator insists on this growing indignation and cynicism towards the connected artefacts of dominance that inhabit the city. Consequently, the novels suggest that relationality and interdependence should involve untangling that net of power and control so as to negotiate social responsibility and create a climate of greater justice and solidarity. Resumen. Este artículo examina la serie de novelas "Quirke", escrita por Benjamin Black, desde una perspeciva ecocrítica. Las historias, localizadas en el Dublín de los años 50 del siglo pasado, están protagonizadas por un patólogo que investiga los asesinatos de las víctimas que llegan a la morgue del Hospital de la Sagrada Familia. Este artículo pretende demostrar que al rastrear exhaustivamente la ciudad a través de los crímenes que se suceden en ella, el autor sugiere la existencia de una amplia red de acciones criminales ejecutadas y supervisadas por distintos agentes de poder y violencia de la época. También se argumenta que Black utiliza de manera consistente las nociones de coexistencia e interdependencia para construir la personalidad del protagonista, en tanto que el narrador insiste en su creciente indignación y cinismo ante los artefactos de poder que habitan su ciudad. Por todo ello, las novelas sugieren que la relacionalidad y la interdependencia implican también desenmarañar esa red de poder y control, para negociar la responsabilidad social y crear un clima de mayor justicia y solidaridad.

Abstract This article explores women’s corporeal repression in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries as r... more Abstract
This article explores women’s corporeal repression in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries as represented in Marita Conlon-McKenna’s novel The Magdalen (1999) and Aisling Walsh’s film Sinners (2002). Women were sent to those institutions, which operated in Ireland until the mid 1990s under the rule of several religious orders, for a variety of reasons: showing dissolute manners, becoming pregnant out of wedlock, being victims of rape, having a mental disability or simply extremely good looks, among others. To expiate their “sins”, the inmates suffered various schemes of corporal mortification that revealed an intricate ethos of national, religious and gender elements. My contention is that the two texts describe how the different assaults upon the Magdalenes’ corporeality entailed the corruption of a system that exploited their bodies as the apparatus of expiation of wider social fears and bigoted understandings of female virtue and justice.
Keywords: magdalene laundries, Ireland, women’s disciplination, sexual repression.

In spite of being considered as a minor dramatist, with She Ventures and He Wins (1695) Ariadne r... more In spite of being considered as a minor dramatist, with She Ventures and He Wins (1695) Ariadne reopened the tradition of female playwrights after Aphra Behn's death. In the main plot of the play, Charlotte, a young and rich heiress, makes a deliberate use of crossdressing and disguise in order to test the man she herself has chosen to marry. Through the acquisition of a new identity, the female protagonist plays a joke both on the patriarchal power over women as regards the choice of a husband and also on the conventional terms of marriage, like money and social class, usually settled by male figures. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to trace the features of the active and manipulative heroine that Behn had already established in plays such as The Rover and to check the way in which Ariadne complies with those principles.

Book chapters by Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides

La cultura de la violación a debate: mitos y realidades, 2023

Haciendo uso del análisis de las producciones cinematográficas Las Hermanas de la Magdalena y Pec... more Haciendo uso del análisis de las producciones cinematográficas Las
Hermanas de la Magdalena y Pecadoras, este capítulo identifica la influencia de la Iglesia católica en el Estado irlandés en las formas de organización y en las políticas sociales con su carácter intrínsecamente patriarcal y misógino. Para tal objeto, se exploran las campañas del activismo social y las artes visuales, que permiten visibilizar el proceso de censura y silenciamiento al que siguen sometidas cuando todavía están vivas las víctimas y testigos/as del fenómeno conocido como “Las lavanderías de la Magdalena”. Por una parte, se estudia la forma en que estas mujeres fueron maltratadas por una institucionalización represora que culpaba a las víctimas de violación y despenalizaba a sus agresores, haciéndoles
padecer una hipervictimización tras la violación que incluía agresiones
sexuales intra-institucionales. Y por otra, se evidencia la continuidad de una cultura de la violación que deslegitima sus discursos, lo que impide que las voces de las supervivientes sean escuchadas para facilitar la reconstrucción identitaria y la re-dignificación social.

The Cultural Politics of In/Difference: Irish Texts and Contexts, 2022

Under the pen name of Benjamin Black, the acclaimed Irish writer John Banville has published sev... more Under the pen name of Benjamin Black, the acclaimed Irish writer John Banville has
published seven crime fiction novels, known as ‘the Quirke series’, set against the backdrop of 1950s Dublin and featuring Quirke, a middle- aged pathologist who works at the Holy Family Hospital. Taken together, the books tackle some of the crimes that stemmed from the strict religious repression prevalent in mid- twentieth- century Ireland, like illegal adoption (Christine Falls and Even the Dead), sexual exploitation and drug dealing (The Silver Swan), incest (Elegy for April), paedophilia (A Death in Summer) or clerical abuse (Holy Orders). It is my contention in this chapter that the existence of systemic crime is suggested along the series, as the stories portray the interconnection of the different agents of hegemonic power that controlled the social order of Ireland’s capital city. Similarly, I will attempt to demonstrate that Black’s narrative articulation of atrocities that had been absent from public discourse for a long time reveals his critique of the transhistorical indifference to socio- structural victimization that has dominated the Irish milieu. Thus, these crime novels, whose publication coincides with the wave of academic studies, survivor memoirs and artistic productions that have made public some of the hidden intricacies of that era in the island, can be said to demand urgent action over the ongoing effects of such ethos of dominance, as accountability has not been sufficiently purged in the present yet.

Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance, 2022

use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you g... more use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.

Research projects by Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides

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European Journal of English Studies, Dec 29, 2024

Estudios Irlandeses, 2020

La cultura de la violación a debate: mitos y realidades, 2023

The Cultural Politics of In/Difference: Irish Texts and Contexts, 2022

Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance, 2022

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Catherine Dunne was born in Dublin in 1954 and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College Dub... more Catherine Dunne was born in Dublin in 1954 and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College Dublin. She lived in England and Spain for a while but has spent most of her life in Ireland. She taught at Greendale Community School and left her job in the 1990s to devote herself to full-time writing. She was politically involved both in the 1986 and the 1995 campaigns to allow divorce legislation in Ireland and her concern about the condition of women in Irish society is projected throughout her writing, set mostly in Dublin.

Dykinson eBooks, Dec 31, 2023

Haciendo uso del análisis de las producciones cinematográficas Las Hermanas de la Magdalena y Pec... more Haciendo uso del análisis de las producciones cinematográficas Las Hermanas de la Magdalena y Pecadoras, este capítulo identifica la influencia de la Iglesia católica en el Estado irlandés en las formas de organización y en las políticas sociales con su carácter intrínsecamente patriarcal y misógino. Para tal objeto, se exploran las campañas del activismo social y las artes visuales, que permiten visibilizar el proceso de censura y silenciamiento al que siguen sometidas cuando todavía están vivas las víctimas y testigos/as del fenómeno conocido como “Las lavanderías de la Magdalena”. Por una parte, se estudia la forma en que estas mujeres fueron maltratadas por una institucionalización represora que culpaba a las víctimas de violación y despenalizaba a sus agresores, haciéndoles padecer una hipervictimización tras la violación que incluía agresiones sexuales intra-institucionales. Y por otra, se evidencia la continuidad de una cultura de la violación que deslegitima sus discursos, lo que impide que las voces de las supervivientes sean escuchadas para facilitar la reconstrucción identitaria y la re-dignificación social.

Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

This chapter addresses the systemic precarisation of individuals through the examination of Holy ... more This chapter addresses the systemic precarisation of individuals through the examination of Holy Orders (2013), the sixth title in Benjamin Black’s “Quirke series”. This crime novel describes the multi-layered precarity of Ireland’s travellers, that appear, I argue, as archives of the failing of infrastructural norms and paradigms of pathogenic vulnerability. Similarly, the story captures the corrupted network of control and influence sustained by the Catholic Church and its concomitant rule of silence, whose dysfunctionality generates a string of parallel justice. In my analysis, I will first explore how the failure of Ireland’s network of infrastructural support has prevailed throughout time, decimating the lives of some of its most vulnerable individuals. Then, I will trace the vigilantism that, as a convention in crime fiction, appears as a product of such deficiency and the troubling questions posed for the contemporary reader.

Teaching against Violence

Created in the mid-1980s, local initiatives in Italy have, with great determination, developed a ... more Created in the mid-1980s, local initiatives in Italy have, with great determination, developed a method to work effectively to support and promote the rights of women and their empowerment. 28 Until now these have been the only structures to address the issue of male violence against women on a public level, not as

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Irish landscapes, 2003, ISBN 84-8240-687-6, págs. 251-258, 2003

Single motherhood in twentieth-century Ireland: cultural, historical and social essays, 2006, ISBN 0-7734-5621-X, págs. 247-258, 2006

ODISEA. Revista de estudios ingleses, 2017

Catherine Dunne's ¿ ction masterly portrays ordinary themes like family relations and the process... more Catherine Dunne's ¿ ction masterly portrays ordinary themes like family relations and the process of identity formation, and she criticises the constraining elements that thwart female subjectivity in Ireland. However, as I intend to argue in this article, by bringing to the fore the diverse ways whereby women transcend the social, psychological or material barriers that the Irish family ideology and the rhetorics of maternity have traditionally set upon them, Dunne emphasizes the need to rethink the social and individual implications that these obstacles entail, insofar as the rearticulation of their conventional signi¿ cance constitutes a catalyst for women's attainment of selfdiscovery.

Journal of Film and Video, 2015

over the past few years, the concept of the body has been critically understood as a new archive ... more over the past few years, the concept of the body has been critically understood as a new archive from which to analyze human practices. As a site of culture, it is constituted as fluid, opening a new economy of power relations. In this sense, the body has allowed for the reconceptualization of the system of binary oppositions traditionally imposed by the heteronormative imperative. Taking this idea as a starting point of our analysis, this article centers on the suffering male body as conveyed in two contemporary films set in different national contexts: Ireland and Spain. The filmic texts discussed here are taken as alternatives to Hollywood's tendency to use beaten and/ or bruised male bodies to reassert male power and offer, instead, fresh instances of portraying physical abuse on screen.The widespread social definition of men as containers of power has resulted in the creation of a certain iconography around the significance of male corporeality. Thus, white, healthy, and strong male bodies have mirrored the normative definition of men. In relation to this issue, Robert W. Connell has argued that this "is translated not only into mental body images and fantasies, but into muscle tensions, posture, the feel and texture of the body. This is one of the many ways in which the power of men becomes 'naturalized'" (85). In this line of thought, Alan Petersen contends that some male bodies matter more than others, given their construction through scientific and cultural practices as the standard for measuring and evaluating others (41). He calls for methods of deconstruction to expose the ways in which power interprets the "normality" or naturalness of some male bodies and the unnaturalness of others. Similarly, within the wider fields of feminism, gender studies, men's studies, and queer theory, among other critical approaches, scholars have attempted to reconceive corporeality outside the heteronormative rule. In general terms, these theories read the body as a product of culture that performs certain conventions. The idea of the cultural performance of the body was developed by Judith Butler in Bodies That Matter, where she affirms that sex is a socially constructed category forcibly materialized through time in the service of the consolidation of the heterosexual imperative (2).Traditionally, Hollywood film has supported images of masculinity that have contributed to the construction of certain notions of male identity in Western cultures. Popular portraits of manhood have been consistently sustained by male-oriented power structures, offering narratives that objectify women and assume a heterosexual male perspective, while proposing at the same time models of ideal masculinities. A debate involving the visual representation of masculinity emerged in the early 1980s as a response to the relevant issues that Laura Mulvey exposed in her controversial article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975). Generally speaking, her analysis considered the disadvantaged position of female spectators and the biased images of women in Hollywood cinema. After its publication, feminist film theory analyzed classical cinema following Mulvey's analysis of visual pleasure, concentrating on the female body as the primary stake of cinematic representation and assuming a "masculinized" viewer. In a sense, these theories left issues such as male representations on screen and the male body as spectacle unquestioned, taking for granted the main problem that motivates that system of representation. Precisely, the study of masculinity on screen has argued for the need to revise iconic representations of manhood as constructed in film narratives.1 Hence, cinematic images of the male body have been widely analyzed from different angles. There are a considerable number of influential works dealing with different aspects of manhood and representation within the world of cinema (e.g., Silverman; Jeffords; Cohan and Hark; Krutnik; Tasker; Mitchell; Donald; MacKinnon; Edwards) that give evidence of the growing importance of masculinity as a field of investigation in film. …

Estudios Irlandeses, 2020

This article offers an examination of Benjamin Black’s Quirke series through an ecocritical lens.... more This article offers an examination of Benjamin Black’s Quirke series through an ecocritical lens. Set against the backdrop of 1950s Dublin, the texts feature a pathologist who investigates the murder of the victims that end at the morgue of the Holy Family Hospital. I contend that by exhaustively mapping the city through its crimes, the author hints at the farreaching web of criminal actions executed and sanctioned by different agents of authority and violence. Similarly, I also claim that the author consistently draws on the notions of coexistence and interdependence to construct the personality of the protagonist, as the narrator insists on this growing indignation and cynicism towards the connected artefacts of dominance that inhabit the city. Consequently, the novels suggest that relationality and interdependence should involve untangling that net of power and control so as to negotiate social responsibility and create a climate of greater justice and solidarity.

espanolEste articulo examina la represion corporal de las mujeres en las «Lavanderias de la Magda... more espanolEste articulo examina la represion corporal de las mujeres en las «Lavanderias de la Magdalena» en Irlanda y su representacion en la novela The Magdalen (1999) de Marita Conlon-McKenna y la pelicula Sinners (2002) de Aisling Walsh. Los motivos por los que se encerraban a las mujeres en estos centros, que funcionaron hasta mediados de los anos 1990 bajo la direccion de varias ordenes religiosas, incluian el haber mostrado comportamientos lascivos, quedarse embarazadas fuera del matrimonio, haber sido violadas, tener una discapacidad mental, ser extremadamente atractivas, entre otros. Para expiar sus «pecados», las reclusas eran sometidas a distintos metodos de mortificacion que revelan una complejidad de elementos nacionales, religiosos y de genero. Intentare probar como los dos textos describen que la agresion a la corporeidad de las Magdalenas deja ver la corrupcion de un sistema que se dedicaba a explotar los cuerpos de las mujeres, convertidas en instrumentos de expiacion ...

... | Ayuda. Gender, disguise and the politics of marriage in Ariadne's "She ventures a... more ... | Ayuda. Gender, disguise and the politics of marriage in Ariadne's "She ventures and he wins". Autores: Auxiliadora Pérez Vides; Localización: SEDERI: yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, ISSN 1135-7789, Nº. 11, 2000 , pags. ...

On an international scale and for nearly a century, the projection of Irish cultural difference r... more On an international scale and for nearly a century, the projection of Irish cultural difference rested chiefly on the island’s unique attachment to religion. In the Republic, debates about the grip of Catholic discourses upon the articulation of post-colonial and nationalist consciousness have taken place across the broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (Kenny; Fuller Irish Catholicism and ‘New Ireland’; Inglis Global Ireland, Moral Monopoly and ‘Religious Field’; Ferriter). Critics, artists and authors have widely stressed the imbrications of the Catholic Church and the State for the enactment of legislation and political sovereignty, thus raising troubling questions about the extent of Ireland’s theocratic status. Yet, there is an added dimension of the monopoly of the Church in Ireland that is equally engaging, and it has to do with the collision between the institutional power artefacts of Catholicism and the personal encounters people have with them. The tension is by no means exclusive to Ireland, or the Catholic Church, but it is certainly quite apparent in this case, on account of the idiosyncrasy mentioned above and the contemporary transformation of religiosity and the secularization drive that the island has experienced in the past decades, which have all resulted in the decline in people’s interest in organized religion.1