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Stand up straight! : a history of posture / Sander L. Gilman

Gilman, Sander L., 1944- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London : Reaktion Books, 2018

429 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cm

Englisch

978-1-78023-924-8

9781780239248

OCoLC: 1027797163     

OCoLC: 1027797163 (aus SWB)     

GN231

305.9083 ; 306.09     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.07 (Kulturgeschichte)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*Haltung ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Posture -- History ; Posture -- Social aspects ; Human body -- Social aspects

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. --

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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