Book Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Cover Artist -- PEDAGOGY AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY -- CHAPTER ONE Thinking about Thinking -- Education and Critical Theory: Finding the Structures -- Perspectives on Critical Pedagogy -- A Way of Looking That Dances with Life -- Limitations of Critical Pedagogy -- Language without a Body -- References -- CHAPTER TWO The Body and Knowledge: Towards Relational Understanding -- Knowledge as the Dialectic of Mind and Body -- Historical and Philosophical Origins of the Problem -- Appearance vs. Existence -- Body and Society: An Inseparable Identity -- A Dichotomy between a Static Language and a Concrete Language of Existence -- The Culture of Anti-Body: Reason and the Suppression of Desire -- References -- CHAPTER THREE Skinned Alive: Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy of the Body -- Our Skin: The First Clue to Identity -- Being-Skinned Alive -- A Political Collaboration: Giving up Freedom for Compliance -- The Corporeality of Language -- The Body in Resistance: We Shall Not Be Moved -- Cynical Reason and Kynical Resistance -- References -- CHAPTER FOUR Re-Membering the Body in Critical Pedagogy -- The Body in Postmodern/Feminist Thought -- Towards an Embodied Voice in Critical Pedagogy -- Reflection One. The Body in the Hidden Curriculum -- Reflection Two. Dance Class: Searching for Home -- Reflection Three. Woman as Body -- Reflection Four. A Prejudice towards Difference -- Reflection Five. Life against Death -- Reflection Six. Touching -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER FIVE The Dancer's Life: Existence and Transformation -- Dialogue as Research -- The Dancer as Solitary Individual: Artist or Cultural Worker? -- Home for the Dancer -- Body -- Conclusion -- References.

CHAPTER SIX Reaching beyond the Familiar: Redefining Dance Education as an Emancipatory Pedagogy -- The Question of Meaning -- Living the Image -- Tangled Theories or Subverting the Tango -- A Different Language for Movement -- References -- CHAPTER SEVEN Towards a Critical Pedagogy of the Body -- The Specific, the Local, and the Body -- Silent Voices: Dance Education and the Process of Liberation -- Sentient Knowledge: Reclaiming a Discourse -- Conclusion: Remembering the Emancipatory Self -- References -- Index.