ABSTRACT
We cannot discuss our way out of oppression when that oppression is embodied, carved into the muscles and retained in the body's knowledge of its place in the world . . . the actual body is molded to carry within its very tissues and muscles the story of ideology. Given the depth to which embodied ideological practices have penetrated and remain deeply secreted within us, I am talking about a very difficult area for transformation, one that cannot be changed by thought alone but only by embodied action [Sampson, 1996, pp. 620-621].
