Foreword by Jill Sheffield -- Photographer's statement -- To be born female -- Women in danger -- Introduction: harsh realities -- Waiting for healthcare -- Teen pregnancy -- Fistula -- HIV/AIDS -- Women's healthcare -- Introduction -- Healthcare workers, silent heroes -- Family planning -- Peer sexual education -- Violence -- Introduction -- Child brides -- Dowry abuse -- Scars of domestic violence -- Human trafficking -- Sex workers -- Tools of empowerment -- A way up: learning a trade -- Judy's design school -- Microfinance -- Books and pens -- Introduction: "Let us pick up our books and our pens" -- Scholarship girls in Ghana -- Girls' education in rural India -- Masaii girls in Kenya -- Empowering girls in Guatemala -- A glimmer of hope in northern Nigeria -- Teachers and mentors -- A teacher and a nurse who rose from the slums of east Africa -- The power of self-expression -- Moving the goalposts -- Faces of hope.
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