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- Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2006)
- Sex, Gender and the Body (Oxford UP, 2005)
- What Is a Woman? and Other Essays (Oxford UP, 1999)
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Blackwell, 1994)
- Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (Methuen, 1985; 2002)