Chapter 1 Framing the Issues; Chapter 2 Postmodernism and the Discourses of Emancipation: Precedents, Parallels and Interruptions; Chapter 3 Research as Praxis; Chapter 4 Feminist Perspectives on Empowering Research Methodologies; Chapter 5 Deconstructing/Deconstructive Inquiry: The Politics of Knowing and Being Known; Chapter 6 Reinscribing Otherwise: Postmodernism and the Human Sciences; Chapter 7 Staying Dumb? Student Resistance to Liberatory Curriculum; postscript Postscript; epilogue Epilogue; afterword Afterword; coda Coda: Seductions and Resistances;