The essays address the intersection of architecture and feminism through interdisciplinary investigations of literature, social history, home economics, and art history. Included topics are: Niki de Saint-Phalle's building-sized female sculpture Hon, the aesthetics and politics of the Playboy bachelor pad, Edith Wharton's ideas on domestic architecture, and the Legend of Master Manole, an Eastern European folktale that prescribes the ritual entombment of women in the walls of buildings, while visual projects take well-known structures by Philip Johnson and Louis Sullivan as points of departure for a feminist reading of architectural history.