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

By:

Gilman, Sander L

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781780239248
1780239246

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.09 23
305.9083 23

LOC classification:

GN231 .G55 2018

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.