From back alley to the border : criminal abortion in California, 1920-1969 / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine.
| Author/creator | Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "'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 |
| General note | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2016. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia. From back alley to the border. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] 9781496211835 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781496223135 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1496223136 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv15tfg21 JSTOR |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |