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=== Hershatter, Gail. Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century. University of California Press, 2007. ===
—Broad framework for gender analysis under socialism.

Hershatter, Gail. The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past. University of California Press, 2011.
—On how political systems shape gendered emotional labor, self-discipline, and silence.

Evans, Harriet. Women and Sexuality in China: Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949. Polity Press, 1997.
—Key work on socialist morality, cadre discipline, and suppression of desire.

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets. Cornell University Press, 1994.
—Not directly laojiao-focused but essential on gendered power structures and moral discipline.

Honig, Emily. “Socialist Sex: Sexuality and Marriage in Shanghai's Huaku Textile Factory, 1949–1966.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 3 (2010).
—On sexual regulation, proletarian morality, and workplace discipline—directly parallel to cadre emotional discipline.