If social, political, and material transformation is to have a
lasting impact 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 understandings
of the ordinary. These features of experience, according to Gail
Weiss, are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, race,
social class, ethnicity, nationality, and perceptions of bodily
normality. While no two people will experience the ordinary in
exactly the same way, the multiplicities, possibilities, overlaps,
and limitations of day-to-day horizons are always intersubjectively
constituted. Weiss turns her attention to changing the conditions
and experiences of oppression from ordinary to extraordinary. This
book is an impressive phenomenological, feminist reading of the
complexities of human experience.M. V. Marder, University of
Toronto, Feb. 2009
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