This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour.
The book uses feminist, socio-legal and philosophical tools to explore the issues of power, vulnerability and autonomy.
The collection challenges the perception that the law adequately addresses different manifestations of unauthorised medical touch through the lens of women's experiences of unauthorised vaginal examinations during labour.
The book unearths several broad.
Hart Publishing Women's birthing bodies and the law: unauthorised intimate examinations, power and vulnerability, hardcover/camilla pickles
