The studies comprised in this book offer insights into women's agency in periods of turbulent social change, which characteristically bring the promise of inclusion for the excluded and the oppressed. In order to be properly understood, women's agency needs to be observed and analysed against the backdrop of specific political projects and the identitarian discourses that facilitate them. This exigency is the main driving force behind the individual chapters of the book. By focusing specifically on societies in the fault-lines of modernity, the book brings to light the mabny ways in which women have responded of contributed to transition and gained empowerment through their active participation in social change.