Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law : Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability (Paperback)

1. Introduction Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring 2. Non-Consented Vaginal Examinations: The Birthrights and AIMS Perspective Rebecca Brione 3. Silence, Acquiescence or Consent: Interpreting Women's Responses to Intimate Examinations Elsa Montgomery 4. Female Genital Examination and Autonomy in Medicine Neda Taghinejadi and Brenda Kelly 5. When a Uterus Enters the Room, Reason Goes out the Window Stella Villarmea 6. Human Rights and Gender Stereotypes in Childbirth Christina Zampas 7. How Should the Performance of Periparturient Vaginal Examinations be Regulated Charles Foster 8. Including the Victim's Perspective: Can Vaginal Examinations Ever be Sexual Assaults? Catarina Sjolin 9. When 'Battery' is not Enough: Exposing the Gaps in Unauthorised Vaginal Examinations During Labour as a Crime of Battery Camilla Pickles 10. Implied Consent and Vaginal Examination in Pregnancy Jonathan Herring 11. Troubling Consent: Pain and Pressure in Labour and Childbirth Claire Murray 12. Redressing Unauthorised Vaginal Examinations through Litigation Andrea Mulligan Afterword: Unauthorised Intimate Examinations as/and Sexual Violence: Some Epistemic and Phenomenological Considerations Sara Cohen Shabot