Employment

• 1996 – 2001 Professor of Cultural Studies, London Metropolitan University
• 2001 – Professor Emeritus Cultural Studies London Metropolitan University
• 2004 – 2013 Visiting Professor London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London
• 1996 – 2001 Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer in social policy and Professor of Cultural Studies, University of North London (now London Metropolitan )

Visiting Lectureships and Professorships

• Stanford University 1985
• Goldsmiths College 2003-2006
• Stockholm University 2007 – 2010

Voluntary Activity

• 1998 – 2005 Member Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Board member
• 2008 – 2010 Volunteer English National Operas
• 2010 – LEA Governor Haverstock School, London Borough of Camden
• 2012 – Trustee, London Library

Publications: Fiction

• 2006 The Twilight Hour London: Serpents Tail
• 2009 War Damage London: Serpents Tail
• 2012 The Girl in Berlin: Serpents Tail

Publications: Non Fiction

• 1977 Women and the Welfare State London: Tavistock
• 1980 Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, London: Tavistock (shortlisted for Fawcett Prize)
• 1982 What is to be Done about Violence Against Women, Harmondsworth: Penguin
• 1985 Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity, London: Virago and Berkeley: University of California Press
• 1988 Hallucinations: Life in the Postmodern City, London: Random Century and New York: WW Norton
• 1989 with Lou Taylor Through the Looking Glass, BBC Press (tie in with tv series, for which I was consultant)
• 1992 The Sphinx in the City, London: Virago Press and Berkeley: University of California Press
• 2000 Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, London: I.B.Tauris and Rutgers University Press
• 2000 The Contradictions of Culture: Cities Culture Women, London: Sage Press.
• 2003 Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity London: I.B.Tauris (2nd edition, revised)
• 2013 Cultural Passions, I.B Tauris

Publications: Edited Collections

• 1992 co-editor with Juliet Ash, Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader, Pandora and University of California Press
• 1992 co-editor with Gillian Rogerson, Pornography and Feminism: The Case Against Censorship, Lawrence and Wishart
• 1999 co-editor with Amy de la Haye, Defining Dress, Manchester University Press
• 2001 co-editor with Jo Entwistle, Body Dressing, Berg Publishers
• Co-editor of book series for IB Tauris: ‘Dress Cultures’
• 1978 – Editorial board member and editor for academic journals, Feminist Review, Critical Social Policy, New Left Review, Fashion Theory, Journal of Design History, Theory Culture and Society, Journal of Consumer Culture
• 1990-1995 regular contributor to Harvard Design Journal
• 980s occasional contributor to Guardian and New Statesman
• 1990s – 2000s occasional contributor to Woman’s Hour, Start the Week, Kaleidoscope, Night Waves and BBC World Service.

Other

• 2000 – Wrote programme note for Puccini’s La Bohème, Royal Opera House and for Leoncavallo’s Boheme at English National Opera
• 2012 – Glyndebourne Lecture on LaBoheme

Education and Qualifications

• St Paul’s Girls’ School, London W6 (scholar)
• St Anne’s College Oxford
• London School of Economics and Political Science
• Birkbeck College, University of London
• BA Oxon English Class II
• Certificate of Social Administration LSE
• Diploma of Mental Health (distinction) LSE
• BA French and German Class I