“Slouch is a gripping read that made me sit up a little straighter in my chair—and taught me how that very impulse, while no longer imposed by campus medical inspectors or stiff ‘posture fashion,’ has come to be so ingrained in the American psyche. Our attitudes about health, beauty, ability, race, and more are vividly, and often surprisingly, revealed through how we have surveilled the shape of our spines. Beth Linker’s rigorous and accessible history illuminates our culture, politics, and society.”

– Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession