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03803aam a2200433 i 4500 001 D66C1DC4141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230817t20242024njua e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023036266 020 $a 069123549X 020 $a 9780691235493 035 $a (OCoLC)1398278595 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CLE $d GP5 $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a RA781.5 $b .L56 2024 100 1 $a Linker, Beth, $e author. 245 10 $a Slouch : $b posture panic in modern America / $c Beth Linker. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 377 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "This book is a historical consideration of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. It opens with the "outbreak" of the poor posture epidemic, which began with turn-of-the-century paleoanthropologists: If upright posture was the first of all attributes that separated human from beasts - and importantly a precondition for the development of intellect and speech - what did it mean that a majority of Americans slouched? By World War I, public health officials claimed that 80% of Americans suffered from postural abnormalities. Panic spread, setting into motion initiatives intended to stem the slouching epidemic, as schoolteachers, shoe companies, clothing manufacturers, public health officials, medical professionals, and the popular press exhorted the public toward detection. Wellness programs stigmatized disability while also encouraging the belief that health and ableness could be purchased through consumer goods. What makes this epidemic unique is that, in the absence of a communicable contagion, it was largely driven by a cultural intolerance of disabled bodies, with notions of "ableness" taking hold for much of the twentieth century. The author traces this history through its consequential demise, as social movements of the 1960s prompted people to push back against invasive and discriminatory standards. Large-scale physical fitness assessments designed to weed out defective bodies relied on compliant participants, and the Civil Rights and Women's Movement, as well as the anti-Vietnam war protests and Disability Rights Movements eventually halted that supply, and in the 1990s a public outcry destroyed many of the archives and materials collected. Nevertheless, anxiety over posture persists to this day"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-362) and index. 505 00 $t The posture photo scandal. $t Posture epidemic -- $t Posture commercialization -- $t Posture queens and fitness regimes -- $t The geopolitics of posture -- $t The perils of posture perfection -- $t The posture photo scandal. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Posture $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Posture $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Posture $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Posture $x History $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Human body $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Human body $x History $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Human body $x Social aspects $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01730101 650 7 $a Posture $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073236 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Linker, Beth. $t Slouch $d Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024] $z 9780691235509 $w (DLC) 2023036267 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517011325.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D66C1DC4141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search