Stepping Out: Life and Sexuality in Rural India

On her journey across several states listening to women’s perspectives on their bodies and talking to dedicated health workers. The author gained an insight into larger realities beyond the history of reproducitve health in India and the state of India’s public health care system. The result is a patchwork quilt of narratives about women’s lives-how they are affected by their envirnoment, their perspectives on male and female sexuality, the mystery od pregnancy, the joy of birth, the fear of infertility. Through it all the author reveals faith in the role of non governmental organizations in providing better health care services.