Stand up straight! : a history of posture /
Gilman, Sander L.,
Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman. - 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. --
9781780239248 1780239246
2018404286
Posture--History.
Posture--Social aspects.
Human body--Social aspects.
GN231 / .G55 2018
306.09 305.9083
Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman. - 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. --
9781780239248 1780239246
2018404286
Posture--History.
Posture--Social aspects.
Human body--Social aspects.
GN231 / .G55 2018
306.09 305.9083