Canguilhem Transfigurations addresses personal relationships to social and cultural violence. Our contributors are all women who have had some experience of violation, whether physical, psychic, or cultural. From these experiences they have had to heal themselves.
Healing is a political, aesthetic, and transfigurative act.
For each woman this act takes different forms. Each piece evinces a normal response to an abnormal situation which is more normal than any of us want to admit. There is violence inherent in negotiating social terms of normality, violence to those who fall outside or on the margins of those boundaries. The power dynamic between institutions with the power to name the subject and those subjects upon and through which they act often replicates the power imbalance between genders. This relation emerges in Transfigurations.