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| Foreword | |
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| Prologue: Darkness and Light | |
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| Critical Issues Faced by Resource-Poor Women | |
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| Who is Worth Studying? | |
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| Turning a Blind Eye to Key Issues | |
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| Women's Health, Poverty, and Rights | |
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| Women and Poverty | |
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| Health Defined | |
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| Women and Human Rights: A Slow Dawning | |
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| Why Focus on Women? | |
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| From the Beginning, A Deadly Preference | |
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| How Do Girls Go Missing? | |
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| Demographic Imbalance and its Societal Effects | |
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| Signs of Changing Times | |
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| Childhood: The Hope of Education and the Persistence of Discrimination | |
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| Unequal Access to Nutrition and Health Care | |
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| The Great Hope of Education | |
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| A Violent Practice: Female Genital Mutilation | |
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| Other Current Challenges: Child Labor and Trafficking | |
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| Adolescence: Change and Vulnerability | |
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| Adolescence: A Time of Change | |
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| Early Childbearing and Early Marriage | |
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| The Female Face of HIV/AIDS | |
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| The Maternity Death Road: Reproductive and Sexual Health | |
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| Reproductive Choice: Women's Access to Contraception | |
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| Safe and Legal Abortion: A Healthy Choice | |
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| Sexually Transmitted Infections | |
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| The Evolving Field of Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights | |
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| The Reading of the Names | |
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| Violence against Women: Abuse or Terrorism? | |
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| The Nature and Prevalence of Domestic Violence against Women | |
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| More Family Violence: "Honor" Killing and Dowry Death | |
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| Countercurrents against the Tide of Domestic Violence | |
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| Women Caught in Conflict and Refugee Situations | |
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| The Nature of Present-Day War | |
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| The Devastating Effects of War on Women | |
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| The Breakout of Conflict | |
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| Flight and Forced Migration | |
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| Unequal Access to Safe Haven | |
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| Life in a Refugee Camp | |
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| The Aftermath of Conflict | |
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| Laboring in a Globalized World | |
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| Women's Work: Unrecognized and Undervalued | |
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| Measuring Work: Not! | |
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| Informal "Paid" Work | |
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| Globalization: Boon or Bane for Women? | |
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| Moving to the City for Pay | |
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| Sex Trafficking | |
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| Sex Work by Choice | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Aging in a Man's World | |
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| Demographics and the Feminization of Aging | |
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| What Does it Mean to be Elderly? | |
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| A Lifetime of Work | |
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| Older Women as Caregivers | |
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| Health Consequences of a Lifetime of Work | |
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| Social Exclusion and Loss | |
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| Characteristics of Older Women in Poorer Countries | |
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| Hopeful Signs | |
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| Turning the World Rightside Up | |
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| The Global Women's Movement | |
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| From Development to Human Rights to Paradigm Change | |
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| The Nature of Feminist Activism | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Some Useful Resources | |
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| Gratitudes and a Personal Note | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |