Selected Publications by Gail Hershatter
- “Disquiet in the House of Gender,” Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 71, no. 4 (November 2012): 873–94.
- The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
- “Getting a Life: The Production of 1950s Women Labor Models in Rural Shannxi,” in Hu Ying and Joan Judge, eds, Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 36–51.
- “Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis” (co-authored with Wang Zheng), American Historical Review, vol. 113, no. 5 (December 2008): 1404–21.
- Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
- “Birthing Stories: Rural Midwives in 1950s China”, in Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 337–58.
- “Forget Remembering: Rural Women’s Narratives of China’s Collective Past,” in Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang, eds., Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2007), 69–92.
- “Virtue at Work: Rural Shaanxi Women Remember the 1950s,” in Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson, eds., Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 309–28.
- “State of The Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century,” Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 63, no. 4 (November, 2004): 911–1065.
- “The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 1 (2002): 43–72.
- Guide to Women’s Studies in China, edited with E. Honig, S. Mann, and L. Rofel (University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998).
- Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in 20th-Century Shanghai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
- Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain, edited with Emily Honig, Jonathan Lipman, and Randall Stross (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
- Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, edited with Christina Gilmartin, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994).
- Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s, edited with Emily Honig (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
- The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986).