Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Co-author with Alice Walker - Published by Harcourt Brace in the US and Jonathan Cape in the U.K, November 1993
Queer Looks: An Anthology of Writings about Lesbian and Gay Media. Co-edited with Martha Gever & John Greyson - Published by Routledge, New York & London, October 1993
'Perverse Politics' Published in Feminist Review No 34, 1991
The Politics of Articulation in Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. Edited by J. Rutherford - Published by Lawrence & Wishart, 1990
Emergence II in Storms of the Heart. Edited by Kwesi Owusu - Published by Camden Press, 1989
'Other Kinds of Dreams: An interview with June Jordan' - Published in Feminist Review, 1988
'Rage and Desire: Confronting Pornography' in "Feminism, Pornography and Censorship. Edited by J. Dickey & C. Cheste. - Published by Prism Press, 1987
Challenging Imperial Feminism with Valerie Amos in Feminist Review (1984) and reprinted several times in various publications and anthologies including Feminism & Race - Oxford University Press, 2000
Asian Women – Race, Class and Culture in The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Britain in the 1980s. CCCS, University of Birmingham - Published by Hutchinson 1982
Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women - Published by Sheba Feminist Press, 1984
Through the Break: Women and Personal Struggle - Published by Sheba Feminist Press, 1984
Hateful Contraries: Images of Asian Women in the Media - Published in Ten 8 Magazine, 1984
'Many Voices, One Chant: Black Feminist Perspectives' - Published in Feminist Review 1982
The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Britain in the 1980s. CCCS, University of Birmingham - Published by Hutchinson 1982
Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora - Author - Gwendolyn Audrey Foster - Published by Southern Illinois University Press 1997
Looking For The Other. Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze. Chapter 6 : "Can One Know the Other?" : The Ambivalence of Post colonialism in Chocolat, Warrior Marks and Mississippi Masala." Author - E.Ann Kaplan - Published by Routledge 1997
Self (En)Gendered in Ideology: Pratibha Parmar's Bhangra Jig and Sari Red . Author- Alpana Sharma Knippling in JPCS : Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society - Volume 1 No 2 Fall 1996.
Film Fatales : Independent Women Directors Eds. Judith M Redding & Victoria A - Brownworth. Seal Press 1997
- Invited to the Womens Directors Series by Florida Atlantic University - 2007
- Invited to be the Regents Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego - Spring 1999.
- Invited to be the Evans Chair at Evergreen College, Seattle - Washington DC November 1997.
- Pratibha Parmar frequently lectures in Women’s Studies and films studies at universities and colleges in the US and UK.
- Pratibha Parmar teaches regular workshops on Acting For the Screen at the Actors’ Centre in London.