Stand up straight! : a history of posture /
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 h...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London, UK :
Reaktion Books,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (429 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781780239644 1780239645 |