ABSTRACT
Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change, women’s lives are being transformed – even as they resist or inflect creeping as well as sweeping change – as they become threaded into the intersecting spaces between globalising time-space compression on the one hand, and the particularities of localisms on the other (as well as the multiple liminal spaces ‘betwixt and between’). Thus the subject of this volume is to grapple with the multiple sites women occupy (and from which they are sometimes displaced) within and at the overlapping borderlands among the arenas of industrial society, the state, civil society, community circles and the home.
