" creative acts directed at alterations in our mode of perceiving (**and embodying_practicing) bodies, are* central to the process of political and social transformation."
" Spinoza recognized the resilience of the imagination and its resistance to change.
(...) What he means by this is that we cannot change people's way of experiencing the world simply by offering them contrary facts. We need to offer them alternative pictures which make emotional (imaginative) and not only cognitive sense. This is a crucial issue for all writers who want to provide an account of corporeal identities in terms of affectively laden body images, or bodily imaginaries. Many of the emotional saliencies which are attached, socially or only individually, to specific bodily features are damaging and destructive. The imaginary associations men can have with women's bodies, or heterosexuals can have with homosexual bodies, or women can have with their own bodies, or white women and men can have with black bodies, or those who regard themselves as able-bodied can have with those imagined as disabled, reflect oppressive power differences in society and inhibit the well-being of those so imagined. It therefore seems imperative that such ways of thinking/feeling about specific corporeal features can be subject to change. The matter becomes more complex once we also recognize that the affective salience which our bodies bear may not be available to reflective scrutiny, but nonetheless reveals itself in the habitual perceptual practices "
*(in the original: 'as')
**added by Catarina
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