Making Ourselves at Home: Women Builders & Designers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0918949262 ISBN 13: 9780918949264

Publisher: Papier Mache Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Interviews with women who have designed and built their own homes, document their feelings towards the building process, sexism in the building industry, and work on a variety of building projects

About this title

From Library Journal

Goldfrank, a general contractor and teacher who built her own home with her husband, here tells the stories of 21 women who designed and built homes. She conducted the majority of her interviews in 1985. The first three quarters of the book is devoted to interviews in which each woman tells how she grew up, learned the building and design trades, and ended up building a home for herself. The women, some of whom embarked on careers in the building business, are frank about their problems and fears while involved in their projects. In the second part of the book, Goldfrank explores what it means for women to build, the rewards of nontraditional careers, and how women design and construct differently from men. This well-written book would be a good choice for women's studies collections.?Lisa J. Cochenet, Winfield P.L., Ill.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Women builders and designers who have built their own homes are profiled by general contractor Goldfrank, who interviews over twenty women who built very different structures, from huts to high-rises. Their accounts provide both personal and technical information for any interested in both autobiographical sketches and insights on the realities of home construction. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Papier Mache Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0918949262
• ISBN 13: 9780918949264
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223
• Editor: Goldfrank Janice