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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilman, Sander L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Posture > History.
Posture > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Posture.
Posture
Body Image
Human Body
Posture > Histoire.
Posture > Aspect social.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Human body > Social aspects
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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