Introduction: the best of times, the worst of times
Rethinking difference
Capturing the process
Representing women: the elite to elite connection
Representing women: the constituency connection
Reproductive rights: gender difference and the paradox of power
Reproductive rights: redefining the meaning of critical mass
Women's health: staying the course with a critical mass
Women's health: a shelter in the storm
Health care reform: the convergence of the politics of presence and the politics of ideas
Health insurance reform: institutional structure, contingent meanings.