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From back alley to the border : criminal abortion in California, 1920-1969
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""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-aborti...
""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"--
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- Creator
- Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
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- xvii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1496211839, 9781496211835, 9781496223128, 9781496223111, 1496223136, 9781496223135
- OCLC
- on1154538527, on1192499443
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Abortion -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Abortion services -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Abortion -- Law and legislation -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 20th century.