{"product_id":"from-back-alley-to-the-border-criminal-abortion-in-california-1920-1969-hardback-9781496211835","title":"From Back Alley to the Border; Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969 (Hardback) 9781496211835","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Back Alley to the Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCriminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlicia Gutierrez-Romine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496211835\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 6 photographs, 3 tables, 1 graph, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFrom Back Alley to the Border\u003c\/i\u003e] effectively challenges readers to consider how legal and social frameworks come together to constrict people's reproductive autonomy both in the past and in the present.\"-Natalie Lira, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In this first history about the underground abortion network in the west, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine explores abortion providers and those who sought them during the anti-abortion statute era in California. Well-researched and accessible, this volume illustrates how the past truly informs the future.”-Karla Strand, \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Gutierrez-Romine’s story of the [Pacific Coast Abortion Ring] offers fascinating insight into an elaborate crime syndicate that also provided women with an essential medical procedure.”-Jennifer L. Holland, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Well-written and accessible to students, this book bears ample witness to the fact that although access to abortion (legal or illegal) can change drastically through time, the desperate need for the service does not.\"-A. H. Koblitz, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Gutierrez-Romine’s important book on illegal abortion reminds us that those who have historically been labelled as ‘criminals’ cannot-and should not-be understood outside the context of the society and the circumstances in which they lived.”-Erin N. Bush, assistant professor of U.S. and digital history at the University of North Georgia\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Alicia Gutierrez-Romine skillfully walks the reader through the complicated world of criminal abortion and, in the process, reveals how racialized logics, changing family values, and evolving legal frameworks created the post–\u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e world we inherited. This transnational account offers rich historical context while insightfully illuminating dozens of fascinating individual stories of women’s choice-and lack thereof. \u003ci\u003eFrom Back Alley to the Border\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and eloquently argued contribution to contemporary debates about the value of life, family, and reproductive freedom.”-Suzanna Krivulskaya, assistant professor of history at California State University, San Marcos\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrom Back Alley to the Border\u003c\/i\u003e, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal 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. Focused on the patients who used this underground network and the physicians who facilitated it, Gutierrez-Romine provides insight into the world of illegal abortion from the 1920s through the 1960s, including regular physicians as well as women and African American abortionists, and the investigations, scandals, and trials that surrounded them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During the 1930s the Pacific Coast Abortion Ring, a large, coast-wide, and comparatively safe abortion syndicate, became the target of law enforcement agencies, forcing those needing abortions across the border into Mexico and ushering in an era of Tijuana “abortion tourism” in the early 1950s. The movement south of the border ultimately compelled the California Supreme Court to rule its abortion statute “void for vagueness” in \u003ci\u003ePeople v. Belous\u003c\/i\u003e in 1969-four years before \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gutierrez-Romine presents the first book focused on abortion on the West Coast and the U.S.-Mexico border and provides a new approach to studying how providers of illegal abortions and their clients navigated this underground network. In the post-\u003ci\u003eDobbs\u003c\/i\u003e moment, this paperback edition of \u003ci\u003eFrom Back Alley to the Border\u003c\/i\u003e features a new afterword by the author and shows us how little we have learned from history. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Back Alley: Butchers and the Underworld\u003cbr\u003e 2. Regular Physicians, Irregular Circumstances: Loopholes and Scandals\u003cbr\u003e 3. Inconceivable Blackness: Race, Medicine, and Contraception\u003cbr\u003e 4. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Mid-Wife Type”\u003cbr\u003e: Wicked Women Abortionists\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring: Organized Crime and Criminal Ambitions\u003cbr\u003e 6. After PCAR: Surveillance, Repression, and Restriction\u003cbr\u003e 7. To the Border: “\u003cbr\u003eTijuana Abortions”\u003cbr\u003e and Legal Vagueness\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599892312344,"sku":"9781496211835","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-back-alley-to-the-border-criminal-abortion-in-california-1920-1969-hardback-9781496211835","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}