TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilman,Sander L.
TI  - Stand up straight!: a history of posture 
SN  - 9781780239248
AV  - GN231 .G55 2018
U1  - 306.09 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Reaktion Books Ltd
KW  - Posture
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human body
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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. --
ER  -