refiguring the ordinary
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 ordinThese features of experience, according to Gail Weiss, are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, and perceptions of bodi“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 horizons of personal experience—our bodies, habits, environments, and abilities—underpin the ordinary.â€
Publication date: 07/02/2008 $24.95 $9.99Gail Weiss“[Readers] interested in phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, and issues of embodiment in general, as well as feminist philosophy, would be interested in this book. It is written clearly and free of jargon.â€
— Thomas Busch, Villanova University“Articulate, readable, well-researched, and original . . . one of the best feminist readings and elaborations of phenomenological philosophy thus far published.â€
— Elizabeth Grosz, — Brittany Shoot, Feminist ReviewRefiguring the OrdinaryRefiguring the OrdinaryRutgers UniversityChoiceFormat: Paperback