The book is providing theories and research methodology as well as three major perspectives for the researchers in humanities and feminist or gender studies. The book talks about not only the dialectics in the class context but even in the context of caste, gender, and patriarchy. It also gives a nuanced narrative to see the women's movement as autonomous and as a people's movement. This phenomenon to identify women's movement as people's movement started from Patna conference, which was in juxtaposing to traditional Marxist radical feminism and autonomous women's movement's economic theory regarding violence against women. This book was published by Kali in 1990, after 4 editions also are required more editions now, because, It is like a foundation of her other books on women's movement and patriarchy. Dr. Lata Pratibha Madhukar
