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