Aleksandra Kollontai, in this particular work of hers (which includes her oral lectures), sheds light on the class essence and historical context of women's social position, which primarily concerns their place in social labor and, as a consequence, their position within the family – based on their specific role in human reproduction – and the relationship with the opposite sex, more generally the relationships between the two genders.

This is a work with significant popularizing power, important for women of working-class, popular integration or origin, young women, even schoolgirls, as well as for women activists of the popular movement.