Gender in Chinese Culture: Yin-Yang, gods and ghosts, masculine and feminine

Inner Quarters, 21-44

Furth, Charlotte. 1986. "Blood, Body and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China,"

Judith Zeitlin. 1997. 1997. "Embodying the Disembodied: Representations of Ghosts and the Feminine." In Writing Women in Late Imperial China, ed. Ellen Widmer and Kang-I Sun Chang. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 242-63.

Article reviews:

Harrell, Stevan. 1986. "Men, Women, and Ghosts in Taiwanese Folk Religion," in Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols, eds. Caroline Walker Bynum, Stevan Harrell and Paula Richman. Boston: Beacon Press.

Sangren, P. Steven. 1983. "Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols: Kuan Yin, Ma Tsu, and the "Eternal Mother." Signs 9.1:4-25.

Black, Allison H. 1986. "Gender and Cosmology in Chinese Correlative Thinking," in Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols, ed. Caroline Walker Bynum, Stevan Harrell, and Paula Richman. Boston: Beacon Press.

Birrell, Anne M. 1985. "The Dusty Mirror: Courtly Portraits of Woman in Southern Dynasties Love Poetry," in Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, ed. by Robert E. Hegel and Richard C. Hessney. New York: Columbia University Press

Reed, Barbara E. 1992. "The Gender Symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva," in Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender, ed. Jose Ignacio Cabezon. Albany: State University of New York Press. Pp. 159-80.

Wilms, Sabine. 2005. "Ten Times More Difficult to Treat:" Female Bodies in Medical Texts from Early Imperial China." Nan Nü 7.2:182-215.

Lee, Jen-der. 2005. "Childbirth in Early Imperial China." Nan Nü 7.2:216-286.

Jen-der Lee. 2003. "Gender and Medicine in Tang China." Asia Major Third Series 16.2:1-32.

Huntington, Rania. 2000. "Foxes and Sex in Late Imperial Chinese Narratives." Nan Nü 2.1:78-128.

Book Reviews:

Furth, Charlotte. 1999. A Flourishing Yin Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Despeux, Catherine and Livia Kohn. 2003. Women in Daoism. Cambridge, MA: Three Pines Press.

Paul, Diana. 1980. Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahayana Tradition. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press.

Catherine Despeux and Livia Kohn. 2003. Women in Daoism. Cambridge: three Pines Press.

Schafer, Edward H. 1973. The Divine Woman: