The Sensuous Classroom: Focusing on the Embodiment of Learning

By SUZANNE M. KELLY

Not long ago, a soon-to-be-minted Ph.D. sat in on one of my women's-studies classes, placing herself in the midst of the undergraduates. Afterward the two of us stayed behind to discuss her impressions of the class. "I'd forgotten what it's like to sit with them," she said.

I nodded in agreement,...