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Key work of art: Scream (1893) - Edvard Munch
Events
Oscar Wilde: Salome
Edward Munch: The Scream (early expressionism)
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6; one of last Romantic symphonies)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing first uses the term "homosexual" and attributes it to an indelible personality trait, rather than to a sexual activity. [Hooven 95]
Feb. 20: Birth of Bill Tilden, first American to win at Wimbledon (d. 1953). He was considered one of the greatest athletes of the 20th Century, but was snubbed by the tennis world when his homosexuality became known.
The Studio (journal)
The Studio was the preeminent art journal of the turn of the century arts and crafts movement. Founded in 1893 by Charles Holmes in London, it promoted an equal presentation of the fine and applied arts.
It gave early exposure to the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Macitosh and the "Glasgow style, and William Morris and the "Aesthetic Movement.
"The Studio championed the use of fine arts in commercial and architectural applications. At the same time, it presented the work of both young artists and those from many countries outside the British Isles. Prior to World War I, it had a major influence on the arts in both Europe and America. During its early years, The Studio commissioned original graphic works for inclusion in its periodical magazine (as Opposed to the Special Numbers). The artists include Whistler, Pennell, Nicholson, Brangwyn, and Riviere, among others. Sims and Reed of London published "The Studio: A Bibliography of the First Fifty Years 1893-1943" in 1978. It included an introduction by the founder's grandson, and an annotated list of the Special Numbers, Series and Annuals. It did not, however, contain details of the contents of the magazine itself, nor a list of the original graphics. In conjunction with the centennial exhibition at the Alan Wofsy Fine Arts Gallery in the summer of 1993, the staff of Alan Wofsy Fine Arts has produced the following checklist of the original graphics from The Studio. --http://www.art-books.com/artbooks/images/pdfs/Book_Studio_WG_t.pdf [Feb 2005]
Gynecocracy [...]
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman (2004) - Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Ferrero
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman (2004) - Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Ferrero [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
About the Author
Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), an internationally famous physician and criminologist, wrote extensively about jurisprudence, psychiatry, human sexuality, and the causes of crime. As a young law student, Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942) assisted Lombroso with research.
Nicole Hahn Rafter is Senior Research Fellow at Northeastern University. Among her many books are Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control and Creating Born Criminals. Mary Gibson is Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915 and Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminology.
Book Description
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.
Synopsis
A new translation of Cesar Lombroso's La Donna Delinquente, with a new scholarly introduction 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 behaviour. Lombroso used Darwinian evolutionary science to argue that criminal women are far more cunning and dangerous than criminal men. 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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