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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
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.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Abortion.
Abortion > Law and legislation.
Abortion services.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women > Social conditions.
California.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.