The present paper proposes to understand the feminist imagination of acquiring control over one’s access to knowledge challenges those who are endowed with privileges and are located at higher social positions. Feminist thought argues for a shift from the ‘margins to the centre’. In this process, there are efforts to eliminate barriers that privileged dominant groups form for access to knowledge and other related resources that mark who can ‘access’ and be a ‘knower’; what can be ‘known’; and who remain outside the purview of access. Often, advocacy for the inclusion of gender has translated in the form of just another research variable. Gender has often been relegated to a ‘subtopic’ status, despite the feminist thought which has sought to usher in dramatically relevant contexts in the social sciences. By revisiting the theories, frameworks and paradigms that have predominantly influenced the social science disciplines from the perspective of men, feminist lens has also engaged with an empirically evident inquiry. Considering that reflexive practice is an important feature of feminism, there is a need to address the domain of feminist research methods in the social sciences, especially in recent years. A reflexive feminist inquiry seems appropriate, because the qualitative methods address power and representation, as an alternative to the quantitative practices that have long dominated the social sciences. Qualitative research methods received preference in feminist research methodologies despite limitations. The narratives disintegrating women from an entity as a ‘whole’ to ‘many parts of the whole’ need to be integrated in the feminist research methodologies. In the sphere of ‘knowledge’, women’s lived experiences lie outside the ‘centre’- in the ‘margins’. But within these margins, knowledge access to women of varied hues- caste, creed, religion and ethnicity, too, gets further stratified. It reinforces the ‘centre-margin’ knowledge sphere from a privileged position with access to becoming a ‘knower’ and what can be ‘known’, transferring itself in a graded fashion from those privileged to those in the margins of the privileges. Thus, the paper endeavours to engage with feminist thought inasmuch to challenge knowledge that excludes, while seeming to include. Across the binary of gender, men are in the privileged ‘centre’, thus dominant, and the women are in the margins, thus oppressed. However, across women in their heterogeneity, those in privileged potions in the ‘centre’ are dominant over those oppressed in the margins of privilege. Through this engagement, the paper proposes to draw from a mixed-methods approach to gender-based social inequalities primarily in health.