Together with Angela [Weir] Mason she wrote Hidden Agendas: Theory, Politics, and Experience in the Women's Movement, published in 1986.
[2] Her books Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life the Control of Disorder and Women, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, Cultural Passions and Love Game: A History of Tennis from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon may appear to cover a wide range of topics.
[3] For the most part, Wilson’s fiction writing is a series of linked crime novels set in the late 1940s and 1950s exploring the changed world of Britain and specifically London after 1945.
In an article for the journal Historical Materialism, Stefan Kipfer and Kanishka Goonewardena write the following about her non-fiction book The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder and Women,"Elizabeth Wilson’s socialist-feminist approach to the city covers terrain similar to Berman’s urban Marxism.
Also strongly inflected by Walter Benjamin and Jane Jacobs, her The Sphinx in the City is an impressively wide-ranging survey of the gendered and sexualised contradictions of urban modernity.
More than Berman, however, Wilson makes it clear that Euro-American metropolitan life has been infused with imperial culture and is co-defined by the world-wide experience of planning colonial and Third World cities such as Delhi, Lusaka and São Paulo.
The ambiguous promise the urban experience represents for socialist feminism must thus take into account the world-wide, uneven character of modern urbanisation.