How Does Rita Felski Three Facets Of Everyday Life

Rita Felski discusses the many facets of ‘everyday life’, questioning and scrutinising ‘everyday’ as a concept within itself. Hence Felski sets out to investigate and define ‘everyday life’, by looking at three key areas of time, space and modality and how they are usually associated with women and gender. She aims to consider three facets of ‘everyday’ by looking at time and its repetitive nature, space: through the ‘sense of home’, and modality: through the experience of ‘habit’. Much of Felski’s research is based on the works of Lefebvre, Heller and Schutz, and provides a dialogue and argument from many points of view (pg 18). In order to understand the ‘everyday’ Felski debates the concept as a ‘temporal term’, in that it can be seen to be repetitive and something that occurs ‘day after day’ (pg
In particular, it is argued that women are in a continual cycle of repetition, mundane activities, and due to this can be seen as ‘doomed to repetition’ and ‘enslavement’ (pg 19). Felski looks to the works of Lefebvre, who labels time as cyclical; repetitiveness, which hinders progress and lacks modernity (pg 19). On the other hand, Felski argues that routine and stability comes from repetition, helping to develop ‘identity as a social and intersubjective process’ (pg 21). In addition to time, Felski also looks at the idea of ‘home’, which is expressed as the space where everyday life takes place. It can be argued that the home is a highly gendered space, is ‘static’ and ‘conservative’ and attachment to the home is perceived as a ‘regressive desire’ (pg 23). In contrast to this view Felski argues that ‘home is complex and temporally fluid’ (pg 25), and as such is constantly evolving and is ‘central to many women’s experience of modernity’ (pg 26). The third facet to Rita Felski’s thesis is ‘habit’; the familiarity of