Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture

Author: Sander L. Gilman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise, and illness, and shift as we age. Our attitudes to bodies, and especially to posture - how people hold themselves, how they move - are also fluid. Our stance and gait are interpreted as healthy or ill, able or disabled, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. In Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture,...Read more