From Back Alley to the Border : Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 /

Show other versions (1)

""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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > California > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Health and hygiene > California > History > 20th century.
Abortion > Law and legislation > California > History > 20th century.
Abortion services > California > History > 20th century.
Abortion > California > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

Similar Items