(1972) Sex, Gender and Society. London: Temple Smith. Reprinted with new Introduction, London: Gower, 1985 (also translated into Spanish and Dutch). Extract

(1974) Housewife. London: Allen Lane. Extract

(1974) The Sociology of Housework. London: Martin Robertson. Reprinted with new Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985 (also translated into German, Dutch and Japanese). Extract

(1979) Becoming a Mother. Oxford: Martin Robertson. (Under the title From Here to Maternity. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. Reprinted with new Introduction, 1986.) Extract

(1980) Women Confined: Towards a sociology of childbirth. Oxford: Martin Robertson. Extract

(1981) Subject Women. Oxford: Martin Robertson.

(1984) The Captured Womb: A history of the medical care of pregnant women. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Extract

(1984) Taking it Like a Woman. London: Jonathan Cape. (Paperback published Fontana 1985; also published by Random House, New York, and translated into Swedish, German and Dutch.) Extract

(1986) Telling the Truth about Jerusalem:Selected essays. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

(1992) Social Support and Motherhood: The natural history of a research project. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Extract

(1993) Essays on Women, Medicine and Health. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

(1996) Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss, my parents' early years. London: HarperCollins. Extract

(2000) Experiments in Knowing: Gender and method in the social sciences. Cambridge: Polity Press. (New York: The New Press.)

(2002) Gender on Planet Earth. Cambridge: Polity Press (New York: The New Press, 2003). Themes

(2005) The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, women and social science. Bristol: Policy Press.