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The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J...
A New Statesman Book of the Year Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies “Extraordinary...I could not put it down.” —Margaret MacMillan “Reveals how ideology corrupts the truth, how untrammeled ambition destroys the soul, and how the vanity of white male supremacy distorts emotion, making even love a matter of state.” —Sonia Purnell, author of A Woman of No Importance When Attilio Teruzzi, a decorated military officer and early convert to the Fascist cause, married a rising American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding was blessed by Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later, Teruzzi...
What was the relationship between the Alps and the Resistance during the Italian Social Republic? This book explores the function of the Alps as a center of battles, violence, and opposition to fascism, as well as the cradle of political debate destined to forge modern Italian and European democracy.
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Bernd Großkurth identifiziert die spezifischen Determinanten der Markenloyalität im Premiumsegment des Automobilmarkts und gibt Empfehlungen, wie Automobilhersteller die Markenloyalität ihrer Kunden sichern bzw. steigern können.
Im Juni 1926 war Rom Schauplatz eines spektakulären gesellschaftlichen Ereignisses. Gefeiert wurde eine »faschistische Hochzeit«, Trauzeuge Mussolini inklusive. Vor den Altar traten Lilliana Weinman, gefeierte amerikanische Opernsängerin aus einer jüdischen Industriellenfamilie, und Attilio Teruzzi, hochdekorierter Kriegsveteran, Teilnehmer beim Marsch auf Rom, mitleidloser Anführer der Schwarzhemden und Archetyp des »neuen starken Mannes«. Aber bald schon fühlte sich der virile Gatte von der Unabhängigkeit seiner Frau in der Ehre verletzt und forderte die Scheidung – nur dachten seine Frau und die katholische Kirche gar nicht daran, dem zuzustimmen. Die Zwangsehe wird für den A...