We are rapidly approaching the end of two decades of publication of the Annual Review of Nursing Research (ARNR) series. This nineteenth volume follows a pattern established in the eighteenth, that is, the entire volume is devoted to one area of nursing research. In this nineteenth volume the focus is women's health. Drs. Diana Taylor and Nancy Woods, well-known scientists in women's health research, have served as volume editors. They selected the content as well as the authors; their editing created this comprehensive volume,