Refiguring the Ordinary
Gail Weiss
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