Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors’ Introduction -- Author’s Preface -- PART I. The Normal Woman -- 1 The Female in the Animal World -- 2 Anatomy and Biology of Woman -- 3 Senses and Psyche of Woman -- 4 Cruelty, Compassion, and Maternity...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham
Duke University Press
[2004]
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| In: | Year: 2004 |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors’ Introduction -- Author’s Preface -- PART I. The Normal Woman -- 1 The Female in the Animal World -- 2 Anatomy and Biology of Woman -- 3 Senses and Psyche of Woman -- 4 Cruelty, Compassion, and Maternity -- 5 Love -- 6 The Moral Sense -- 7 Intelligence -- PART II. Female Criminology -- 8 Crime in the Animal World -- 9 Crimes of Savage and Primitive Women -- 10 The History of Prostitution -- PART III. Pathological Anatomy and Anthropometry of Criminal Woman and the Prostitute -- 11 The Skull of the Female Offender -- 12 Pathological Anomalies -- 13 The Brains of Female Criminals and Prostitutes -- 14 Anthropometry of Female Criminals -- 15 Facial and Cephalic Anomalies of Female Criminals and Prostitutes -- 16 Other Anomalies -- 17 Photographs of Criminals and Prostitutes -- 18 The Criminal Type in Women and Its Atavistic Origin -- 19 Tattoos -- PART IV. Biology and Psychology of Female Criminals and Prostitutes -- 20 Menstruation, Fecundity, Vitality, Strength, and Reflexes -- 21 Acuteness of Sense and Vision -- 22 Sexual Sensitivity (Lesbianism and Sexual Psychopathy) -- 23 The Female Born Criminal -- 24 Occasional Criminals -- 25 Crimes of Passion -- 26 Suicides -- 27 The Born Prostitute -- 28 The Occasional Prostitute -- 29 Insane Criminals -- 30 Epileptic Criminals and the Morally Insane -- 31 Hysterical Criminals -- Appendix 1: Comparing Three Editions of La donna delinquente -- Appendix 2: Illustrations in the Earlier Editions -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, La donna delinquente, originally published in Italian in 1893, was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work.Lombroso’s research took him to police stations, prisons, and madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and sexual behavior of criminals and prostitutes to establish a female criminal type. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman anticipated today’s theories of genetic criminal behavior. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men. Designed to make his original text accessible to students and scholars alike, this volume includes extensive notes, appendices, a glossary, and more than thirty of Lombroso’s own illustrations. Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson’s introduction, locating his theory in social context, offers a significant new interpretation of Lombroso’s place in criminology |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (320 p) 32 b&w photos, 30 tables |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780822385592 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780822385592 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |