Moving Lessons: Margaret H'Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education

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Contents Illustrations Foreword Sally Banes A Reminiscence Anna Halprin Acknowledgments Introduction I 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, I9I 7-I 9 26 v VB lX XV XXl 3 9 73 I03 I23 I45 Contents 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 Vi 193 201 219 223 225 249 261 ...