Overview -- The strength of links -- Communication is empowering -- Need for international discourse and solidarity -- The politics of health -- planting seeds for the future -- Taking control of our bodies and our lives -- The fight for a free womb -- Legal rights and women's reality -- Community work -- Women's reproduction and health -- The role of a community nutritionist -- The sannap project -- Health services -- Helping ourselves -- Health on wheels -- Health education -- Targeting teenagers: sex -- Training community health workers -- AIDS prevention among prostitutes -- Relearning life -- Traditional health skills -- Action-oriented research on alternative medicine -- Women traditional healers of the Philippines -- Reproductive rights -- Bringing childbirth back home -- Women's rights -- Face tp face -- Occupational health -- Empowering women workers in industry -- Life in a factory town -- Campaigns -- Till we have won -- Against many odds -- Resources -- Directory of publishers -- Annotated bibliography