Alborz Dianat is a researcher at University College Dublin and Editor-in-Chief of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art History at University College Dublin.

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction Alborz Dianat and Kathleen James-ChakrabortyPart 1. Materials and ConstructionChapter 1. Written in Stone: Eleanor Coade and the Building World of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Dana ArnoldChapter 2. A Woman on the Margins: The Trailblazing Career of Mary Louise Schmidt and the Making of Los Angeles in the Twentieth Century Andrea Thabet and Jenna SnowChapter 3. Myriam Ratinoff: A Concrete Architectural Practice in 1960s Chile Gabriela García de Cortázar GalleguillosPart 2. Domesticity in Journalism and Real Estate DevelopmentChapter 4. Beauty in Revolution: Late Ottoman Feminists and the Everyday Aesthetics of Home Crafts in 1920s Women’s Magazines Damla GöreChapter 5. Editors and Entrepreneurs: Women’s Writing on Architecture and Design in Britain, 1918–39 Alex BanisterChapter 6. ‘A Live Career for Women’: Building Homes for the Working Class in Interwar Britain Alexandra QuantrillChapter 7. Not Her Mother’s Suburb: Women in American Real Estate and Their Promotion of Modern Architecture in the Mid- Twentieth Century Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. MurphyPart 3. Nurturing Spaces for New IdeasChapter 8. Maire Gullichsen and Norrmark Handicraft: Matron of Finnish Design and Champion of Postwar Craftsmanship Sini Rinne-KantoChapter 9. Barbara Hill and the Most Intimate Coffee House in Perth , Western Australia, 1956–1960 Andrew MurrayChapter 10. Lena’s Bookshop: Uncomfortable Knowledge, Modern Architecture, and the Building of a Southeast Asian Space, 1976–2004 Eunice SengPart 4. Social Entrepreneur shipChapter 11. The Invisible Hand: Female Bureaucrats and the Architecture of Foreign Aid in Post-Independence Kenya Maryia RusakChapter 12. Architectural Adjacency: Sheltered Housing Architectures and the Place-based Practices of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy (RSC) in 1960s–1990s Ireland Ellen Rowley and Haylee DerricksonChapter 13. Representing Black Women? Black Philanthropy, Architectural Design, and the Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College, 1988–1996 E. James WestBibliography About the authors Index

This edited book challenges the gendered narratives that perpetuate the belief that women have never been key agents in prosperous businesses associated with the construction industry, editorial production, design products, and social-humanitarian entrepreneurship. - Lucía C. Pérez Moreno, University of Zaragoza