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The chapter Sweethearts – The body as a learning subject by Nina Rossholt offers a post-structuralist perspective on the (gendered) body, through an empirical analysis of preschool children’s play. The article questions how girls and boys create processes of learning in their activities, through expressions of the body and spoken language in preschool context. The analytical strategy of ‘troubling’ the taken-for-granted opens up the complexity and multiple subject positions through which children are becoming learning subjects in institutions, and within this analytical approach it is shown how play and the pedagogies regulation of play is a source of the constitution of gender and heteronormativity.

Exploring body-anchored and experience-based learning in a community of practice by Reinhard Stelter. The chapter aims to integrate body-anchored and experience-based learning in the theoretical concept of learning in a community of practice. Present moment, epoché, intentional orientation and meaning-making are introduced as the four basic premises for body-anchored and experience-based learning which, in a second step, is presented as part of the social realm and as one of the prerequisites of learning in a community of practice. This integration is established and becomes visible through the following two concepts: 1. Reification as the outflow of co-ordinated action, and 2. narratives as the outflow of speech acts, originally based on embodied and experience-based knowledge.

Where the ordinary ends and the extreme begins – aesthetics and masculinities among young men. On the basis of empirical studies in the city of Copenhagen, Niels Ulrik Sørensen analyses body perceptions and practices among young men who push their bodies to the limit in order to meet contemporary ideals of aesthetizised male bodies. The chapter weaves this analysis into conceptual discussions of the dichotomies between the individualized/massificated body, the masculine/feminine body and the natural/cultural body. The chapter makes use of the concept of corporeality as a third position – i.e. a position which can bridge the components in dichotomous concepts of the body.