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.
Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Women and resettlement / door Dolores Koenig: Women's studies and developing countries: focus on Asia / door Mariam K. Chamberlain en Florence Howe: Research frontiers at the nexus of gender, environment, and development: linking household, community, and ecosystem / door Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter en Dianne E. Rocheleau: Women, revolution, and national identity in the Middle East / door Valentine M. Moghadam: Building socialism with chinese characteristics / door Norma Diamond: The 'Woman Question' and national identity: Societ and Post-Soviet Russia / door Linda Racioppi en Katherine O'Sullivan See: South Africa: constructing a nation, restructuring gender / door Gay W. Seidman.