Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman.

  • Gilman, Sander L.
Date:
2018
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.

Physical description

429 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DEI/GIL
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781780239248
  • 1780239246