Weisman, Leslie Kanes
WEISMAN, Leslie Kanes
WEISMAN, Leslie Kanes. American, b. 1945. Genres: Women's studies and issues. Career: Educator and author. University of Detroit, Detroit, assistant professor, 1968-75; New Jersey Institute for Technology, Newark, associate professor of architecture, 1975-97, associate dean, 1984-85, professor of architecture, 1998-; Brooklyn College, visiting professor of women's studies, 1980; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visiting associate professor of architecture, planning, and women's studies, 1986; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, George A. Miller Endowment professor, 1995-96. Detroit City Planning Commission and Detroit Historical Society, consultant, both 1969-75; Women's School of Planning and Architecture, co-founder, 1974-81; Networks, Women in Architecture (professional organization), NYC, co-founder, 1977-82; Sheltering Ourselves (international educational forum on housing and economic development for low income women and their families), co-founder, 1987-. Publications: Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment, 1992; (Co-ed, with D. Agrest and P. Conway) The Sex of Architecture, 1996. Contributor of chapters to books. Address: School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A.