Prologue: Darkness and light
1. Women's health, poverty, and rights
2. From the beginning, a deadly preference
3. Childhood: the hope of education and the persistence of discrimination
4. Adolescence: change and vulnerability
. 5. The maternity death road: reproductive and sexual health
6. Violence against women: abuse or terrorism?
7. Women caught in conflict and refugee situations
8. Laboring in a globalized world
9. Aging in a man's world
10. Turning the world rightside up.