“From a preeminent historian of disability, Slouch lights up the corners where ableism still lurks. Inventive, persuasive, and important, Beth Linker’s wide-ranging book follows the curves of American posture science through the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. This book is ardently needed—to support more liberatory notions of beauty, belonging, power, consent, and what it means to be human.”

– Laura Stark, author of Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research