Refiguring the Ordinary

If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lastingimpact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience.Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandingsof the ordinary. These features of experience, according t

If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lastingimpact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience.Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandingsof the ordinary. These features of experience, according to Gail Weiss, are neverneutral, but are always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, and perceptions of bodily normality. While no two people willexperience the ordinary in exactly the same way, the multiplicities, possibilities, overlaps, and limitations of day-to-day horizons are always intersubjectivelyconstituted. Weiss turns her attention to changing the conditions and experiences ofoppression from ordinary to extraordinary. This book is an impressivephenomenological, feminist reading of the complexities of human experience.M. V.Marder, University of Toronto, Feb. 2009