"The Sex of Architecture brings together twenty-four provocative texts that collectively express the power and diversity of women's views on architecture today. Edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, and Leslie Weisman, three leaders in their field, this volume presents a dialogue among women historians, practitioners, theorists, and educators concerned with critical issues in architecture and urbanism. In their insightful essays, the authors explore history, public space and the city, housing, consumerism, and discourse itself. They reexamine some long-suspect 'truths' -- that man build and woman inhabits; that man is outside and woman is inside; that man is public and woman is private; that culture is male and nature is female."