The interviews usually focus on the embedded cultural perceptions in China about women's rights, roles, and suffering.

Many of these interviews were drawn from the call-in portion of Xinran' widely popular radio program, Words on the Night Breeze.

This book attacked key issues such as infanticide, son-preference, suppression of sexuality, homosexuality, and the sexism embedded in culture and society.

Many women's stories involved rape, forced marriage, deception, and abuse at the hands of authority figures in society and the government.

Drawn mainly from anecdotes and interviews, and sparsely substantiated by historical facts and statistics, this book takes on important issues without resorting to a black-and-white view of the situation.