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100 1 _aGilman, Sander L.,
245 1 0 _aStand up straight! :
_ba history of posture /
_cSander L. Gilman.
264 1 _aLondon, UK :
_bReaktion Books Ltd,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a429 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_bsti
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aOur 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. --
_cAdapted from jacket and preface.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 _aPosture
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPosture
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aHuman body
_xSocial aspects.
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