Steele, Valerie
Fashion and Eroticism. Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era to the Jazz Age
New York, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1985
* Frau, Schönheit, Schönheitsideal, Erotik

Paris Fashion. A Cultural History
New York, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1988

-; Kidwell, Claudia Brush; (Ed.)
Men and Women. Dressing the Part
Washington (Smithsonian Institution Press) 1989, pp 188

Appearance and identity
Kidwell, Claudia Brush; Valerie Steele (Ed.), Men and Women. Dressing the Part, Washington (Smithsonian Institution Press) 1989, 6-21

Clothing and sexuality
Kidwell, Claudia Brush; Valerie Steele (Ed.), Men and Women. Dressing the Part, Washington (Smithsonian Institution Press) 1989, 42-63

Dressing for work
Kidwell, Claudia Brush; Valerie Steele (Ed.), Men and Women. Dressing the Part, Washington (Smithsonian Institution Press) 1989, 64-91

Women of Fashion. Twentieth Century Designers
New York 1991

The F-word
Lingua Franca. The Review of Academic Life, April 1991, 17-20

Chanel in Context
Ash, Juliet, Wilson, Elizabeth (Hg.), Chic Thrills. A Fashion Reader, London 1992, 118-126
* Coco Chanel

Anti-Fashion: The 1970s
Fashion Theory, New York Vol.1 (1996), Heft 1, 279-296
* Anti-Mode

Fetish. Fashion, Sex and Power
New York (Oxford University Press) 1996
deutsch:
Fetisch. Mode, Sex und Macht
Berlin (Berlin Verlag) 1996
brazilian: 1997; french: 1997; italian: 2005.

-; Globus, Dorothy Twining; Solero, Irving
Fifty years of fashion. New look to now
London, New Haven (Yale University Press) 1997, pp. 168, 128 black &white and colour plates

-; (Ed.), Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
Edited by Valerie Steele. Published quarterly (March, June, September, December), 1997 ff
* Modezeitschrift

Theorizing Style: Subkultur und Fetischmode
Kunstforum, Bd. 141 (1998), 97-103
*Stil Fetisch Subkultur

-; Major, John S. (Ed.)
China chic. East meets West
London, New Haven (Yale University Press) 1999, pp. 208

Fashion: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
White, Nicola; Griffiths, Ian (Ed.) The Fashion Business. Theory, Practice, Image, Oxford (Berg) 2000, 7-22

The Fan: Fashion and Femininity
New York (Rizzoli International Publications), 2002, pp. 128
* Fangeschichte

The Corset. A cultural history
Yale University Press, 2003, pp. 208

-; et al.
Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion, 3 vol,
New York (Charles Scribner’s Sons) 2004, pp. 1600

-; (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
Vol. 1: Academic dress to eyeglasses, pp. XVIII+434, illustrations
Vol. 2: Fads to nylon, pp. IV+ 464, illustrations
Vol. 3: Occult dress to Zoran, index, pp. IV+557, illustrations
Detroit (Charles Scibner`s Sons) 2005

Shoes and the Erotic Imagination
Riello, Giorgio; McNeil, Peter (Ed.), Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, Oxford (Berg) 2006), 250-271

Abstraction and the Avant-Garde
Bippus, Elke; Mink, Dorothea (Hg.), Fashion Body Cult / Mode Körper Kult, Stuttgart (Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt) 2007), deutsch/englisch, 318 Seiten, Abbildungen: 104 in Farbe, 106 schwarz-weiss (Schriftenreihe der Hochschule für Künste Bremen, 3), 24-29