Leslie Kanes Weisman

Weisman was born in 1945. She was an assistant professor at University of Detroit from 1968 to 1975. Weisman joined the faculty at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1975 as an associate professor of architecture. She served as associate dean from 1984 to 1985 and was promoted to professor of architecture in 1998. Weisman was a visiting professor of women's studies at Brooklyn College in 1980.{{Cite web|title=Weisman, Leslie Kanes {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/weisman-leslie-kanes|access-date=2020-12-03|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}

She was involved with Heresies 11, "Making Room: Women and Architecture".{{cite journal|title=Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto|journal=Heresies|year=1981|volume=3|issue=3|pages=6–8|url=http://heresiesfilmproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/heresies11.pdf}} She has been instrumental in creating and promoting universal design applications for design practice and pedagogical models for design teaching.{{cite web|title=The Environmental is Political: Universal Design and Social Sustainability with Leslie Kanes Weisman|url=http://www.universaldesign.com/2013-08-16-19-05-11/public-and-commercial/531-the-environmental-is-political-universal-design-and-social-sustainability-with-leslie-kanes-weisman.html|publisher=Universal Design News|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140517231259/http://www.universaldesign.com/2013-08-16-19-05-11/public-and-commercial/531-the-environmental-is-political-universal-design-and-social-sustainability-with-leslie-kanes-weisman.html|archive-date=2014-05-17}}

She retired around 2000, and moved to Southold, New York, where she has played an instrumental role on the local zoning commission.{{cite news|url=https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2011/01/2010-public-servant-of-the-year-leslie-kanes-weisman/|newspaper=Suffolk Times|title=2010 Public Servant of the Year: Leslie Kanes Weisman|first=Beth|last=Young|date=January 5, 2011}}

• {{Cite book|last=Weisman|first=Leslie|title=Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment|date=1992|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-01849-7|language=en}}Reviews of Discrimination by Design:
• {{cite journal | last = Beavis | first = Mary Ann | author-link = Mary Ann Beavis | date = June 1994 | issue = 1 | journal = Canadian Journal of Urban Research | jstor = 44320319 | pages = 100–101 | title = none | volume = 3}}
• {{cite journal | last = Dubrow | first = Gail Lee | doi = 10.1177/0739456X9301200216 | issue = 2 | journal = Journal of Planning Education and Research | pages = 172–174 | title = none | year = 1993 | volume = 12}}
• {{cite journal | last = Favro | first = Diane | date = September 1994 | doi = 10.2307/2081424 | issue = 2 | journal = The Journal of American History | jstor = 2081424 | pages = 834–835 | title = none | volume = 81}}
• {{cite journal | last = Feldman | first = Roberta M. | author-link = Roberta M. Feldman | date = Fall 1993 | doi = 10.2307/1511681 | issue = 2 | journal = Design Issues | jstor = 1511681 | pages = 83–84 | title = none | volume = 9}}
• {{cite journal | last = Guilfoil | first = Joanne K. | journal = Journal of Social Theory in Art Education | pages = 191–196 | title = Review | url = https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jstae/vol14/iss1/14/ | volume = 14 | year = 1994}}
• {{cite journal | last = Huxley | first = Margo | date = July 1996 | doi = 10.1016/0277-5395(96)82379-x | issue = 4 | journal = Women's Studies International Forum | pages = 474–475 | title = none | volume = 19}}
• {{cite journal | last = Keigher | first = Sharon M. | date = March 1993 | doi = 10.2307/2075723 | issue = 2 | journal = Contemporary Sociology | jstor = 2075723 | pages = 173–175 | title = none | volume = 22}}
• {{cite journal | last = Leavitt | first = Jacqueline | date = November 1993 | doi = 10.2307/1425172 | issue = 2 | journal = Journal of Architectural Education | jstor = 1425172 | pages = 113–114 | title = Designing appropriate space | volume = 47}}
• {{cite journal | last = Meyer | first = Esther da Costa | date = Spring 1993 | issue = 1 | journal = NWSA Journal | jstor = 4316247 | pages = 127–129 | title = none | volume = 5}}
• {{cite journal | last = Nierhaus | first = Irene | date = January 1994 | doi = 10.7767/lhomme.1994.5.1.165 | issue = 1 | journal = L'Homme | title = none | volume = 5| s2cid = 147643786 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Seager | first = Joni | date = January 1993 | doi = 10.2307/4021423 | issue = 4 | journal = The Women's Review of Books | jstor = 4021423 | pages = 1+3–4 | title = Blueprints for inequality | volume = 10}}
• {{cite journal | last = Shane | first = Grahame | issue = 1 | journal = Harvard Design Magazine | title = none | year = 1997}}
• {{cite journal | last = Somerick | first = Nancy M. | date = December 1994 | doi = 10.1016/0363-8111(94)90105-8 | issue = 4 | journal = Public Relations Review | pages = 402–403 | title = none | volume = 20}}
• {{cite journal | last = Stall | first = Susan | date = Spring 1995 | issue = 1 | journal = Journal of Architectural and Planning Research | jstor = 43030164 | pages = 87–89 | title = none | volume = 12}}
• {{cite journal | date = December 1994 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-2427.1994.tb00296.x | issue = 4 | journal = International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | pages = 713–716 | title = Shorter reviews | volume = 18}}
• {{Cite book|title=Sex of Architecture|date=1996|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|others=Contributors: Beatriz Colomina, Diana Balmori, Jennifer Bloomer, Joan Ockman|isbn=978-0-8109-2683-7|editor-last=Agrest|editor-first=Diana|editor-link=Diana Agrest|language=en|editor-last2=Weisman|editor-first2=Leslie|editor-last3=Conway|editor-first3=Patricia|editor-link3=Patricia Conway (architect)}}Reviews of Sex of Architecture:
• {{Cite journal|last=Hanna|first=Bronwyn|date=November 1996|title=Review|journal=Architectural Theory Review|language=en|volume=2|issue=1|pages=212–215|doi=10.1080/13264829609478312|issn=1326-4826}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Lahiji|first1=Nadir|last2=Friedman|first2=D. S.|date=1999|title=Review|journal=AA Files|issue=40|pages=84–87|issn=0261-6823|jstor=29544180}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Crout|first=Durham|date=2000|title=Review|journal=Journal of Architectural and Planning Research|volume=17|issue=3|pages=260–267|issn=0738-0895|jstor=43030543}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Rosner|first=Victoria|date=2000|title=Review|journal=Signs|volume=25|issue=3|pages=981–986|doi=10.1086/495507|issn=0097-9740|jstor=3175442}}

• Weisman, Leslie Kanes. Our Architecture Ourselves, On The Issues Magazine (Winter 2009).
• Interview with Cristina Cerulli and Florian Kossak, "Educator, Activist, Politician', field: a free journal for architecture, 3 (2009)
• "Women's Environmental rights." Making Room: Women and Architecture. Heresies no. 11 (1981: 6-8).
• Weisman, Leslie Kanes and Noel Phyllis Birkby. "Women's Fantasy Environment: Notes on a Project in Process." Heresies 2(May 1977): 116-117.
• "Patriarchitecture and Feminist Fantasies." Liberation 19, no 8 & 9 (Spring 1976): 45-52.
• "A Woman Built Environment: Constructive Fantasies, Quest 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): 7-18.

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