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Stand Up Straight!
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ISBN-13:
9781780239248
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.05.2018
Seiten:
424
Autor:
Sander L Gilman
Gewicht:
1039 g
Format:
243x167x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus professor of psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds, Health and Illness: Images of Difference, and Smoke: A Global History of Smoking.
Our bodies are not fixed. They expand and contract with variations in diet, exercise, and illness. They also alter as we age, changing over time to be markedly different at the end of our lives from what they were at birth. In a similar way, our attitudes to bodies, and especially posture--how people hold themselves, how they move--are fluid. We interpret stance and gait as healthy or ill, able or disabled, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. In Stand Up Straight!, Sander L. Gilman probes these shifting concepts of posture to explore how society's response to our bodies' appearance can illuminate how society views who we are and what we are able to do.