Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

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Produktbeschreibung

From Back Alley to the Border examines the history of illegal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California’s anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781496237460
• ISBN-10: 1496237463
• Artikelnr.: 67131415

Autorenporträt

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is an associate professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino.   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Back Alley: Butchers and the Underworld
2. Regular Physicians, Irregular Circumstances: Loopholes and Scandals
3. Inconceivable Blackness: Race, Medicine, and Contraception
4. “The Mid-Wife Type”: Wicked Women Abortionists
5. The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring: Organized Crime and Criminal Ambitions
6. After PCAR: Surveillance, Repression, and Restriction
7. To the Border: “Tijuana Abortions” and Legal Vagueness
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index