Introduction
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For presentation at March 2005 International Studies
Association Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii (Global Political
Economy: Gendered Bodies, Practices and Ideologies Panel)
INTRODUCTION
FEMINIST SIGHTINGS OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING: NEW
CONCEPTUALIZATIONS AND RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS
Marianne Marchand
Universidad de las Americas—Puebla, Mexico
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anne Sisson Runyan
University of Cincinnati, USA
'Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know,' said Mr Brooke, smiling
towards Mr Casaubon. 'I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a
book now.'
--George Eliot, Middlemarch
In George Elliot’s day, the underlying assumption was that "young ladies" did not
understand political economy because they did not have anything to do with it: the
workings of an international capitalist political economy as codified and reified by
classical political economists like Adam Smith were considered far removed from the