Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso (5 October 1872 in

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– 27 March 1944 in

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) was an

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, and

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, best remembered for her uncredited writings on the subjects of

criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

and

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co-authored with her father

Cesare Lombroso Cesare Lombroso (, also ; ; born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the establis ...

, her individual writings on the female condition and

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. She was the wife of Italian

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and writer

Guglielmo Ferrero Guglielmo Ferrero (; 21 July 1871 — 3 August 1942) was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the ''Greatness and Decline of Rome'' (5 volumes, published after English translation 1907–1909). Ferrero devoted his writings to c ...

(1871-1942) and hence adopted the surname Ferrero-Lombroso. Their son Leo Ferrero (1903-1933), a writer and

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, died in a car accident in Santa Fe (USA). All three are buried at the

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in Geneva,

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Notable works

*''Sulle condizioni sociali economiche degli operai di un sobborgo di Torino'' (1896) *''I coefficienti della vittoria negli scioper'' (1897) *''Sulle cause e sui rimedi dell'analfabetismo sociale'' (1898) *''I vantaggi della degenerazione'' (1904) *''Cesare Lombroso. Appunti sulla vita. Le opere'' (1906) *''Nell'America Meridionale (Brasile-Uruguay-Argentina)'' (1908) *''Cesare Lombroso. Storia della vita e delle opere narrata dalla figlia'' (1921) *''La donna nella vita. Riflessioni e deduzioni'' (1923) *''Anime di donna. Vite vere'' (1925) *''La donna nella società attuale'' (1927) *''Le tragedie del progresso meccanico'' (1930)

References

1872 births 1944 deaths Female critics of feminism Italian physicians Italian writers Italian psychiatrists Italian criminologists Italian women physicians Italian women writers Italian women psychiatrists Italian women criminologists People from Pavia {{Italy-scientist-stub