Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad [with John Ehrenreich] (journalism) 1969
The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics, a Report from the Health Policy Advisory Center [with J. Ehrenreich] (essays) 1970
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers [with Deirdre English] (essays) 1972
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness [with English] (essays) 1973
For Her Own Good: One Hundred Fifty Years of the Experts' Advice to Women [with English] (essays) 1978
The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (essays) 1983
Re-making Love: The Feminization of Sex [with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs] (essays) 1986
The Mean Season: An Attack on the Welfare State [with Fred Block, Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven] (essays) 1987
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (essays) 1989
The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (essays) 1990
Kipper's Game (novel) 1994
The Snarling Citizen (essays) 1995
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (nonfiction) 1997