1. The Modern Health Care System and Gender Bias: The Historical and Ideological Context -- 2. The Traditional Model of Women's Growth and Development: A Deficiency Theory -- 3. Relational Psychology: A Reframing of the Strengths of Women -- 4. The Female Voice: Women's Ways of Knowing and Communicating -- 5. The Interaction of Gender, Class, and Race -- 6. Adolescence -- 7. The Reproductive Years -- 8. Peri-Menopause -- 9. Growing Older -- 10. Women as Individuals -- 11. Women in the Context of their Family and Community: Implications for Public and Social Policy -- 12. The Global Context of Women's Health Care -- 13. Developing a New Model for the Care of Women