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PRC White Paper: "The Situation of Chinese Women," 1994.
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/chinesewoman/index.htm

PRC White Paper: "Family Planning in China," 1995.
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/familypanning/index.htm

Parker, Andrew, ed. Nationalisms and Sexualities.

Ortner, Sherry. "Gender Hegemonies," in Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Dikotter, Frank. Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period, Honolulu: Univ. of HI press, 1995.

Evans, Harriet. Women and Sexuality in China.New York: Continuum, 1997.

Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China.

Croll, Elizabeth, ed. The Women's Revolution in China: A Selection of Readings. Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute, Modern China Series No. 6, 1974. (see me).

Diamant, Neil. Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. (see me).

Makley, Charlene. "The Meaning of Liberation: Representations of Tibetan Women," in The Tibet Journal, Summer 1997. (18pp) (see me)

Schein, Louisa. Ch. 4 "Internal Orientalism: Gender and the Popularization of China's Others," in Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Brownell, Susan and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, eds. Chinese Feminities, Chinese Masculinities: a Reader. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Barlow, Tani. "Theorizing Women: Funu, Guojia, Jiating," Body, Subject and Power in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Devine, Carol. Determination: Tibetan Women and the Struggle for an Independent Tibet. Toronto: Vauve Press, 1993.

Huber, Toni. "Why Can't Women Climb Pure Crystal Mountain? Remarks on Gender and Space at Tsa-ri," in P. Kvaerne, ed., Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes, (1992), Vol. 1., Oslo, 1994. (see me)

Tshering Chotsho. "A Drop from the Ocean: The Status of Women in Tibetan Society," Tibet Journal, Vol 22 (2), 1997. (see me)

Klein, Anne. Primordial Purity and Everyday Life: Exalted Female Symbols and the Women of Tibet. Immaculate & Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985

Havnevik, Hanna. Tibetan Buddhist Nuns, Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1990.

Allione, Tsultrim. Women of Wisdom. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.

Levine, Nancy. The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity and Population on the Tibetan Border, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Ortner, Sherry. "The Founding of the First Sherpa Nunnery and the Problem of "Women" as an Analytic Category", Feminist Re-Visions: What has been and might be. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Women's Studies Program, 1983

Taring, Rinchen. Daughter of Tibet. 1970

Campbell, June. Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism. New York: George Braziller, inc., 1996.

Watkins, Joanne. Spirited Women: Gender, Religion and Cultural Identity in the Nepal Himalaya. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Willis, Janice, ed. Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1987.

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