Women's Birthing Bodies and the Law

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Introduction / Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring -- Non-consented vaginal examinations : the birthrights and AIMS perspective / Rebecca Brione -- Silence, acquiescence or consent : interpreting women's responses to intimate examinations / Elsa Montgomery -- Female genital examination and autonomy in medicine / Neda Taghinejadi and Brenda Kelly -- When a uterus enters the room, reason goes out the window / Stella Villarmea -- Human rights and gender stereotypes in childbirth / Christina Zampas -- How should the performance of periparturient vaginal examinations be regulated? / Charles Foster -- Including the victim's perspective : can vaginal examinations ever be sexual assaults? / Catarina Sjölin -- When 'battery' is not enough : exposing the gaps in unauthorised vaginal examinations during labour as a crime of battery / Camilla Pickles -- Implied consent and vaginal examination in pregnancy / Jonathan Herring -- Troubling consent : pain and pressure in labour and childbirth / Claire Murray -- Redressing unauthorised vaginal examinations through litigation / Andrea Mulligan.