Publications (** most significant)
Forthcoming
** 2021 Barrett M. ‘WoolfNotes: Virginia Woolf’s Reading and Research Notes Online’ in Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to Archivalism, ed Matthew Feldman et al, Bloomsbury
** 2019 ‘The Unremembered: channel 4 documentary film based on my war graves research, presented by David Lammy. November 10th (Remembrance Sunday), Uplands TV.
** 2017 ‘Dehumanization and the War in East Africa’ in Journal of War and Culture Studies, special issue on Alternate Spaces of the First World War, ed Angela Smith
2017 Revised version of essay on Stuart Hall, in Key Sociological Thinkers, ed Rob Stones, Palgrave Macmillan
2017 Second edition of Star Trek: the Human Frontier (with Duncan Barrett) New York, Routledge
2015 ‘Bayreuth and Berlin: The Voyage Out and the Place of German in Woolf’s Writing’ in The Voyage Out: Centenary Perspectives ed Sarah Hall et al, London, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.
2015 New edition of Women’s Oppression Today with a new essay, London, Verso.
2015 New edition of The Anti-social Family (with M McIntosh), London, Verso.
** 2013 ‘Virginia Woolf’s Research for Empire and Commerce in Africa (Leonard Woolf, 1920)’. Woolf Studies Annual. 19: 83-122.
** 2013 ‘Printing, Writing and a Family Archive: Recording the First World War’. With Peter Stallybrass. History Workshop Journal. 75.
2013 ‘White Graves and Natives’. Bodies in conflict: Corporeality, materiality, and transformation. Eds. N Saunders and P Cornish. Imperial War Museum (London).
** 2012 ‘Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy and the Freudianization of Shell Shock’. Contemporary Literature. 53 (2): 237 -260.
** 2011 ‘Death and the Afterlife: Britain’s Colonies and Dominions’. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Ed. S Das, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge).
(2010). ‘Subalterns at War: First World War Colonial Forces and the politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission’. Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea. Ed. R C Morris. Columbia University Press (New York).
(2010). ‘Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Library at Washington State University’. Virginia Woolf Bulletin. 35: 7-11.
** (2007). ‘Subalterns at War: First World War Colonial Forces and the Politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission’. Interventions (International Journal of Postcolonial Studies). 9 (3): 451-474.
With Baker B (2007). Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life. Routledge (London).
**(2007). Casualty Figures: how five men survived the First World War. Verso (London).
(2007). ‘The Concept of Difference’ (1987). Reprinting for worldwide web academic use, by Pearson Education.
(2007). Stuart Hall. Ed. R Stone, Palgrave (Basingstoke).
With McIntosh M (2005). ‘Ethnocentrism and Socialist Feminist Theory’ (republished with a new preface). Feminist Review 80: Reflections on 25 Years.
(2005). ‘Virginia Woolf and Pacifism’. Woolf in the Real World. Ed. K Kukil, Clemson University Digital Press (New York).
(2004). ‘Redeeming Features of Daily Life’. Live: Art and Performance. Ed. A Heathfield. Tate Publishing (London).
(March 2003). ‘Shell-Shocked: the Art of Trench Warfare’. Guardian Saturday Review.
(Editor and Introduction) (2003). Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing (re-issue). Harcourt (New York).
Baker B (2001). Box Story. A Performance commissioned by LIFT, with an essay by Michele Barrett.
**With Barrett D (2001). Star Trek: the human frontier. Polity Press (Cambridge).
(2001). ‘Reason and Truth in ‘A Room of One’s Own’: A Master in Lunacy’. Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Eds. J Berman and J Goldman. Pace University Press (New York).
(2000). ‘The Great War and Post-modern Memory’. New Formations 41: 138-157.
(2000). ‘Sociology and The Metaphorical Tiger’. Without Guarantees: in Honour of Stuart Hall. Eds. P Gilroy, L Grossberg and A McRobbie. Verso (London).
** (1999). Imagination and Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture. Polity Press (Cambridge).
(1999). ‘Post-feminism’. Theory and Society. Ed. F Webster. Sage (London).
(1998). ‘Virginia Woolf meets Michel Foucault’. Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 52: 4-5.
With McIntosh M (1998). ‘The Anti-social Family (extract). Families in the U.S: Kinship and Domestic Politics. Eds. K Hansen and A Garey. Temple University Press (Philadelphia).
(1997). ‘Words and Things’ (extract). Feminisms. Eds. S Kemp and J Squires. Oxford University Press (Oxford).
(1997). ‘Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender’. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women’s Lives. Eds. R Hennessy and C Ingraham. Routledge (New York).
(1994). ‘Althusser and the Problem of Determinations’. The Polity Reader in Social Theory. Polity Press (Cambridge).
(1994). A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas. Virginia Woolf: Introductions to the Major Works. Ed. J Briggs. Virago Press (London).
(1994). ‘Ideology, Politics, Hegemony: from Gramsci to Laclau and Mouffe’. Mapping Ideology. Ed. S Zizek. Verso (London).
** Barrett M (Editor and Introduction) (1993 and 2000). Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas. Penguin (London).
(1993). ‘Althusser’s Marx, Althusser’s Lacan’. The Althusserian Legacy. Eds. E Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker. Verso (London)
With Phillips A (1992) Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates. Polity Press (Cambridge).
(1992). ‘Max Raphael and the Question of Aesthetics’. The Politics of Pleasure: Aesthetics and Cultural Theory. Ed. S Regan. Open University Press (Buckingham).
(1992). ‘Psychoanalysis and Feminism – a British sociologists view’. Signs. 17 (2): 455-466.
**(1991). The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault. Polity Press (Cambridge).
With McIntosh (1991). The Anti-Social Family (second edition, with new material). Verso (London).
(1990). ‘Feminism’s Turn to Culture’. Woman: a Cultural Review 1.
(1988). ‘Some Different Meanings of the Concept of “Difference”’. The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical Theory. Eds. E Meese and A Parker. John Benjamins Publishing (Amsterdam).
With Segal L (1988). ‘Grossbrittanien’. Frauenbewegungen in der Welt. Ed. S Andresen. Argument (Berlin).
(1987). ‘Gender and Class’. Gender and the Politics of Schooling. Ed. M Arnot and G Weiner. Hutchinson (London)
(1987). ‘The Place of Aesthetics in Marxist Criticism’. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Eds. C Nelson and L Grossberg. Illinois University Press and Macmillan (Urbana and London).
** (1987). ‘The Concept of Difference’. Feminist Review. 26.
(1987). ‘Max Raphael and the Question of Aesthetics’. New Left Review. 161.
(1987). ‘Marxist-Feminism and the Work of Karl Marx’. Feminism and Equality. Ed. A Phillips. Blackwell (Oxford).
With McIntosh M (1987). ‘Ethnozentrismus in sozialistischen Feminisms’. Das Argument. 163.
(1987). ‘“Differenz” und Differentzen. Drei Bedeutungen eines Begriff’. Viele Orte. Uberall? Feminismus in Bewegung. Ed. K Hauser. Argument (Berlin).
(1986). Extracts from Women’s Oppression Today, Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing, and ‘Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics’ reprinted in Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. Ed. M Eagleton. Blackwell (Oxford).
With Connolly C, Segal L, Campbell B, Phillips A, Weir A, Wilson E (1986). ‘Feminism and Class Politics: A Round-Table Discussion’. Feminist Review. 23: 13-30.
(1986). ‘Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender’. Feminist Criticism and Social Change. Eds. J Newton and D Rosenfelt. Methuen (New York).
(Introduction) (1986). Friedrich Engels’s The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Penguin (London).
(1986). ‘The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago’ (review essay). Argument. 28: 391-397.
With Hamilton R (eds.) (1986). The Politics of Diversity: Feminism, Marxism and Nationalism. Verso (London).
(1985). ‘Althusser and the Concept of Ideology’. Ideas from France: the Legacy of French Theory. Ed. L Appignanesi. Institute of Contemporary Arts (London).
(1985). ‘Michèle Barrett Antwoordt Haar Kritici’. Links. 2. (Utrecht).
With McIntosh M (1985). ‘Ethnocentrisme en Socialisties-Feministiese Theorie’. Tijdschrift voor Vrouen Studies. 24. (Amsterdam).
** With McIntosh M (1985). ‘Ethnocentrism and Socialist-Feminist Theory’. Feminist Review. 20.
(1984). ‘Rethinking Women’s Oppression: A Reply to Brenner and Ramas’. New Left Review. 146.
(1984). ‘Unity is Strength? Feminism and the Labour Movement’ (revision of 1981 article). Women and the Public Sphere. Eds. J Siltanen and M Stanworth. Hutchinson (London).
(1983). Entries on the family and other topics. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Ed. T Bottomore. Blackwell (Oxford).
With McIntosh M (1983). ‘The “Family Wage”’. The Changing Experience of Women. Ed. E Whitelegg. M Robertson (London) (reprint of 1980).
With McIntosh M (1983). ‘Strategies pour le Changement’. Les Cahiers de la Recherche en Travail Social. 5.
(1983). ‘Marxist-Feminism and the Work of Karl Marx’. Marx: A Hundred Years On. Ed. B Matthews. Lawrence and Wishart (London)
(1982).‘Feminism and the definition of cultural politics’. Feminism, culture, and politics. Eds. R Brunt and C Rowan. Lawrence and Wishart (London).
(1982). ‘The Antisocial Family’. Argument. 24: 820-827.
(1982). ‘Female Sexuality’. Human Sexual Relations. Ed. M Brake. Penguin (London).
(1982). ‘Die unsoziale Familie’. Das Argument. 136.
(1982). ‘Begriffsprobleme Marxistisch-feministische Analyse’. Das Argument. 132.
** With McIntosh M (1982). The Anti-social Family. New Left Books and Verso (London). Translated into Greek (1987) Athens.
With McIntosh M (1982).‘Narcissism and the Family’. New Left Review. 135.
(1981). ‘Unity is Strength?’ New Socialist. 1.
(1981). ‘Timpanaro: Materialism and the Question of Biology’ (review essay). Sociology of Health and Illness. 3 (3).
(1981). ‘Materialist Aesthetics’ (review essay). New Left Review. 126.
With McIntosh M (1980). ‘The “Family Wage”: some problems for socialists and feminists’. Capital and Class. 11.
(1980).‘Feminism and Materialism’ (review essay). Signs, 5 (3).
(1980). ‘Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism edited by Z R Eisenstein’ (review essay). Signs. 5 (3): 527-531.
** (1980). Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist-Feminist Analysis. New Left Books and Verso (London) (5 UK printings, new foreword in 1985). Translated into German (1983) Das Unterstellte Geschlecht (Berlin); Swedish (1982) Kvinnofortryk (Lund); Finnish (1985) Nykyajan Alistettu Nainan (Tampere); Dutch (1984) Links an de Vrouen Beweging (Weesp).
** (Editor and introduction) (1979). Virginia Woolf, Women and Writing. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Women’s Press (New York and London).
With Radford J (1979). ‘Modernism in the 1930s: Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf’. 1936: The Sociology of Literature, Vol 1. Eds. F Barker, J Bernstein, J Coombes, P Hulme, D Musselwhite, J Stone. University of Essex (Colchester).
With others (editor and contributor) (1979) Ideology and Cultural Production. Croom Helm (London).
With McIntosh M (1979). ‘Christine Delphy: Towards a Materialist Feminism?’ Feminist Review. 1.
With others, the (‘Marxist Feminist Literature Collective’) (1978). ‘Women’s Writing: Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’. The Sociology of Literature: 1848. Eds. F Barker et al. University of Essex (Colchester). Reprinted in Ideology and Consciousness. 3: 27-47.
(1978) Contributor of entries on social theory concepts in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought. Eds. A Bullock and O Stallybrass. Fontana Press (London).
With Roberts H (1978). ‘Women, General Practice and Social Control’. Women, Sexuality and Social Control. Eds. B Smart and C Smart. Routledge (London).
(1978). ‘Towards a Sociology of Virginia Woolf Criticism’. The Sociology of Literature: Applied Studies. Ed. D Laurenson. University of Keele (Keele).