De bundel behandelt de internationale en regionale perspectieven op de reproductieve rechten: gezin, staat en de wet, politiek en bevolking: de vrouw in het gezin, culturele beperkingen en kansen: gezondheid en family-planning-voorzieningen in het Midden Oosten. De bundel bevat de volgende artikelen: A region of diversity and change / door Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer: Reproductive rights in the West and in the Middle East : a cross-cultural perspective / door Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer: The fertility transition in Turkey : reforms, policies, and family structure / door Cem Behar: State, women, and civil society : an evaluation of Egypt's population policy / door Saad Eddin Ibrahim: Fertility transition in the Mashriq and the Maghrib : education, emigration, and the diffusion of ideas / door Youssef Courbage: Population policy and gender equity in post-revolutionary Iran / door Homa Hoodfar: Women, uncertainty, and reproduction in Morocco / door Rahma Bourqia:Women's autonomy and gender roles in Egyptian families / door Laila Nawar, Cynthia B. Lloyd, en Barbarba Ibrahim: Changing hierarchies of gender and generation in the Arab World / door Philippe Fargues: Target-setting in family planning programs : controversies and challenge / door Karima Khalil en Cynthia Myntti: Broadening contraceptive choice : lessons from Egypt / door Esseldin O. Hassan, Mahmoud F. Fathalla: Rethinking family planning policy in light of reproductive health research / door Huda Zurayk, Nabil Younis en Hind Khattab.
'The World’s Women 2015 comprises eight chapters covering critical areas of policy concern: population and families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment, and poverty. In each area, a life-cycle approach is introduced to reveal the experiences of women and men during different periods of life—from childhood and the formative years, through the working and reproductive stages, to older ages.'