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From back alley to the border : criminal abortion in California, 1920-1969 / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Health and hygiene--California--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Abortion--Law and legislation--California--History--20th century.
- Abortion.
- Women--California--Social conditions--20th century.
- Abortion services--California--History--20th century.
- Abortion services.
- Abortion--California--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- ""From Back Alley to the Border" examines the history of illegal abortion in California and the role that abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- From back alley : butchers and the underworld
- Regular physicians, irregular circumstances : loopholes and scandals
- Inconceivable blackness : race, medicine, and contraception
- "The mid-wife type" : wicked women abortionists
- The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring : organized crime and criminal ambitions
- After PCAR : surveillance, repression, and restriction
- To the border : "Tijuana abortions" and legal vagueness.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2313-6
- 9781496223111
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