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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gilman, Sander L. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.