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Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso (also known asFerrero-Lombroso; 5 October 1872 inPavia – 27 March 1944 inGeneva) was an Italian physician, writer,psychiatrist, andcriminologist, best remembered for heruncredited writings on the subjects ofcriminology andpsychiatry co-authored with her father, anthropologistCesare Lombroso, and her individual writings on thefemale condition and industrialisation. She was the wife of Italian historian and writerGuglielmo Ferrero.

Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso was born on 5 October 1872 inPavia. She was the second of five children to her father, Italian anthropologist Cesara Lombroso.^[1] She gained a diploma in medicine in 1891, after studying literature and philosophy.^[2] Her thesis was titledI vantaggi della degenerazione (The advantages of degeneration).^[2]

She was an Italian physician, writer,psychiatrist, andcriminologist, best remembered for heruncredited writings on the subjects ofcriminology andpsychiatry co-authored with her fatherCesare Lombroso, her individual writings on thefemale condition and industrialisation.^[3] She was the wife of Italian historian and writerGuglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942)^{[4][5][6][7][8]} and hence adopted the surname Ferrero-Lombroso. Their sonLeo Ferrero (1903–1933), a writer and playwright, died in a car accident inSanta Fe (USA).^[9]

Lombroso was an anti-feminist and anti-suffragist.^[1] She publishedL'Anima della Donna (The Soul of Woman: Reflections on Life) in 1920, and it attracted international attention. It was published in twelve languages and in three editions.^[2] Some claimed that the French edition was supposedly responsible for the defeat of suffrage in France.^[1]

In 1927 Lombroso was listed alongsideMaria Montessori as one of the journalQuaderni di psichiatria's 'top psychologists and hygienists.'^[2]

She died on 27 March 1944 inGeneva.^[2][9] She is buried with her husband and son at theCimetière des Rois in Geneva,Switzerland.

• 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)

• Works by Gina Lombroso atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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• Female critics of feminism
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• Italian women psychiatrists
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• People from Pavia
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• 20th-century Italian women physicians
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