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Notes

*I would like to thank John Doe and Rosemary Roe for commenting on an early draft of this paper.

1. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Translated by H.M. Parshley (New York: Knopf, 1952), pp. 123-25.
2. Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
3. Nicholas Fraser, "A New Moronism," Guardian, June 2, 1997.
4. Ralph Miliband, "Harold Laski: An Exemplary Public Intellectual," New Left Review, 200, July/August, 1993, p. 175.
5. Ibid., pp. 173-74.
6. Evans, et al., op. cit., p. 36.
7. Jairus Banaji, "Globalization and Restructuring in the Indian Food Industry," in H. Bernstein and T. Brass, (eds.), Agrarian Questions. Essays in Appreciation of T.J. Byres (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 192.

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