Global Perspectives on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse

Part I. Childhood and Emerging Adulthood

1. Girl Child Marriage: A Persistent Global Women’s Health and Human Rights Violation
Anita Raj, Emma Jackson, Serena Dunham

2. The Role of Premarital Agency in Delaying Marriage and Reproductive Decision Making in Urban India
Marie A. Brault, Stephen L. Schensul, Shweta Bankar

3. The Case for a Multi-Sectoral Approach to Preventing Child Marriage and Early Childbearing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eunice Muthengi, Karen Austrian

4. Reframing the Way We Think About Teenage Motherhood
Brittany D. Chambers, Jennifer Toller Erausquin

Part II. Childbearing

5. Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section (VBAC): Informed Choice and a Source of Empowerment Among Black Women in the United States
Kara Fransisco, Morgan Sanchez

6. “Sickness of Shame”: Investigating Challenges and Resilience Among Women Living with Obstetric Fistula in Kenya
Charlotte E. Warren, Pooja Sripad, Annie Mwangi, Charity Ndwiga, Wilson Liambila, Ben Bellows

7. Empowering Women in India to Influence Maternal Healthcare Quality Through Mobile Phones and Crowdsourcing
Aparajita Gogoi, Manju Katoch, Priya Agrawal

Part III. Reproductive Control

8. The Role of Balinese Culture in Explaining Inconsistencies Between Fertility Intentions and Reproductive Outcomes
Mellissa Withers, Carole Browner, I. Nengah Ardika Adinata

9. Knowing Client Rights and Meeting Their Needs: Provider Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Meeting the Reproductive Needs and Rights of People Living with HIV in South Africa
Deborah Mindry, Pranitha Maharaj, Thabo Letsoalo, Chantal Munthree, Tamaryn Crankshaw

10. Claiming the Abortion Narrative: A Qualitative Exploration of Mainstream and Social Media Reflections on Abortion
Natalie Whaley, Jenn Brandt

11. The Criminalization of Women for Abortion in Chile
Michele Eggers

Part IV. Violence

12. From Violence to Sex Work: Agency, Escaping Violence, and HIV Risk Among Establishment-Based Female Sex Workers in Tijuana, Mexico
Shonali M. Choudhury, Debbie Anglade, Kyuwon Park

13. A Continuum of Severity of Sexual Intimate Partner Violence Among Black Women in the United States
Jamila K. Stockman, Kristin K. Gundersen

14. A Conceptual Framework and Intervention Approach for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy: The Safe & Sound Model in South Africa
Abigail M. Hatcher, Nataly Woollett, Christina C. Pallitto, Claudia Garcia-Moreno

15. Invisible Survivors: Causes and Consequences of Violence Against Older Women and Promising Solutions
Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Cailin Crockett, Bergen Cooper

16. Women’s Exposure to Sexual Violence Across the Life Cycle: An African Perspective
Lillian Artz, Talia Meer, Alex Müller

Part V. Beyond Reproduction

17. Economic Empowerment to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Women and Girls
Elizabeth Reed, Brooke S. West, Marissa Salazar, Ricardo Vera Monroy

18. Women’s HIV Knowledge and Condom Use Across Diverse Relationship Types in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Jennifer Toller Erausquin

19. Women’s Partner Relationships and Reproductive and Sexual Health in Lusaka, Zambia
Lwendo Moonzwe Davis

20. Women’s Sexual Pleasure and the Intimate Spaces of Heterosexual Sex in Cape Town, South Africa
Laura Pascoe

21. Cervical Cancer Prevention in East Africa: Moving from Evidence to Implementation
Megan J. Huchko

22. Menopause: A Contextualized Experience Across Social Structures
Engida Yisma, Stephanie Ly

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Medicine, Sexual Behavior