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Author Gilman, Sander L., author

Title Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman
Published London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (429 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction: Posture beyond the workplace -- Posture in the world of movement -- Postures of the mind: theology and philosophy explain human posture -- Chest out! Posture's military meanings -- Medicine as therapy for an unhealthy posture -- Dance and the social taming of posture -- Education shapes a healthy and beautiful posture -- Anthropology remakes posture: Lamarck, Darwin and beyond -- 'Natural posture': posture and race -- 'Political posturing': posture defines the good citizen -- Contemporary posture and disability studies -- Conclusion: Maps of moral posture
Summary Our bodies change over time; posture is ambiguous in a number of cultural and disciplinary realms. Your posture can denote you as healthy or ill, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. Gilman examines the history and sociology of posture: how society views who we are and what we are able to do by how our bodies appear. -- adapted from jacket and preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Posture -- History
Posture -- Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects.
Posture.
Posture
Body Image
Human Body
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Human body -- Social aspects
Posture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781780239644
1780239645