From back alley to the border : criminal abortion in California, 1920-1969 / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine.

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Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781496223135
1496223136

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: From back alley to the border.DDC classification:

362.1988/8009794 23

LOC classification:

HQ767.5.U5 G87 2020eb

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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.

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

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"'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

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