Somjee Geeta

This book is about the poor and the constraints of social and economic relationships within which they are trapped. Such constraints have diminished their social and political capacity to be able to escape from poverty. The book deals with the real rather than the abstract notions of poverty.

A study concerned with the efforts to help women overcome constraints imposed upon them by a network of social relationships, attitudes of men and gaps in social policy. It emphasizes the need for relativistic theories and differentiated social strategies sensitive to different societies.