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 |
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London, UK :
Reaktion Books,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.