Call for abstracts special edition on unwanted intimate examinations, 21 June.

Call for abstract

Special issue on unwanted intimate examinations

The recent edited collection Women’s birthing bodies and the Law: Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability received much needed attention. We would like to harness this energy and use the special issue as a forum to broaden the discussion to include perspectives and issues that were not addressed in the edited collection.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Trans, Queer, Gay, Intersex experiences and perspectives

• Children and intimate examinations

• Unwanted rectal examinations in different contexts

• Masculinity and intimate examinations

• Global South perspectives

• Intimate examinations as racism, violence, or gender-based violence

• Virginity testing

• Pain and shame

• Teaching intimate examinations and the broader accommodation of diverse bodies
  

We welcome contributions on these themes and others broadly related to intimate examinations. Our aim is to provide multidisciplinary perspectives and we encourage contributions from black and minority ethnic perspectives and experiences.

Abstract submission guidelines

Please send an abstract of 300 words to camilla.m.pickles@durham.ac.uk. The deadline for submission is 21 June 2021.

Timescale

Depending on journal specifications, we would be looking for an article of around 8000 words. The precise due date will depend on the journal timeline, but we are expecting submission in 2022.

Marthe Goudsmit DPhil Candidate in Law Exeter College / Law Faculty University of Oxford