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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gilman, Sander L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human body--Social aspects.
• Posture--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781780239248
• 9781780239644
• 1780239645