Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- A Reminiscence -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Early Twentieth-Century Dance Education and the Female Body -- 2. Nineteenth-Century Responses to Women's Health and Sexuality: Art, Fashion, Dance -- 3. Women, Physical Activity, Education: A Nineteenth-Century Perspective -- 4. Blanche Trilling: Leader and Visionary in Women's Physical Education -- 5. Margaret H'Doubler and the Liberty of Thought -- 6. Margaret H'Doubler and the Philosophy of John Dewey -- 7. Structuring Experience in the Classroom: Margaret H'Doubler Brings Dance to the University, 1917-1926 -- 8. Margaret H'Doubler's Classroom: Educational Progressivism in Theory and Action -- 9. Margaret H'Doubler's Legacy: Dance and the Performing Body in the American University -- Appendix 1: Granville Stanley Hall -- Appendix 2: Dance Department Memorandum, December 1953 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.