Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The larger story : naming the contexts: Service delivery systems and women : the construction of conflict / Marianne Walters ; The interweaving of gender, class, and race in family therapy / Jodie Kliman ; The impact of misogyny and homophobia on therapy with women / Priscilla Ellis and Bianca Cody Murphy -- pt. 2. Women in context through the life cycle: Female adolescence revisited : understanding girls in their sociocultural contexts / Marsha Pravder Mirkin ; Women growing older : partnerships for change / Sarah Greenberg and Aluma Kopito Motenko ; Lesbian families : a cultural perspective / Joan Laird ; Therapy with bisexual women : working on the edge of emerging cultural and personal identities / Margaret Nichols ; Single heterosexual women through the life cycle / Karen Gail Lewis ; Women in stepfamilies : the fairy godmother, the wicked witch, and Cinderella reconstructed / Anne C. Bernstein -- pt. 3. Women and health: Keep abreast : women and breast cancer in context / Robert J. Apfel, Susan M. Love, and Barbara Hansen Kalinowski ; Working with communities of women at risk for AIDS : a chronicle / Helen Lettlow Gasch and Mindy Thompson Fullilove ; The sociopolitical contexts of abortion / Marsha Pravder Mirkin and Barbara Okun ; The counter revolution : sex, politics, and the new reproductive technologies / Jill Betz Bloom ; Over the hill we go : women at menopause / Ellen Cole -- pt. 4. Problems presented in therapy : the impact of the sociopolitical context: Diversity and difference : race and feminist psychotherapy / Beverly Greene ; Violence against women : ramifications of gender, class, and race inequality / Barbara Pressman ; Poor women : making a difference / Myrtle Parnell and Jo Vanderkloot ; Empowerment work with homeless women / Alice K. Johnson and Judith A.B. Lee ; Women's struggles in the workplace : a relational model / Irene Pierce Stiver ; It's a question of dollars and cents : prioritizing economic issues in women's treatment / Elana Katz ; Female adolescents and sexuality : a look at teen sexual behavior, its consequences, and the pregnancy prevention programs / Joyce R. Lappin ; Epilogue: The maternal presence in psychotherapy / Molly Layton.