Title:
Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman.
Author:
Gilman, Sander L., author.
Publication Information:
London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.
©2018
Call Number:
GN231 .G55 2018
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9781780239248
Physical Description:
429 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
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.
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