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Author Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia, author.

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

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2016.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Abortion -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Abortion.
California.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Abortion services -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Abortion services.
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Abortion -- Law and legislation.
Women -- Health and hygiene -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia. From back alley to the border. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] 9781496211835 (DLC) 2020001878 (OCoLC)1154538527
ISBN 9781496223135 (electronic book)
1496223136 (electronic book)
9781496211835
1496211839