| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Abortion -- California -- History -- 20th century
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Abortion services -- California -- History -- 20th century
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Abortion -- Law and legislation -- California -- History -- 20th century
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- California -- History -- 20th century
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Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Abortion
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Abortion -- Law and legislation
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Abortion services
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Women -- Social conditions
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California
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496223135 |
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1496223136 |
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