Beth Linker - Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Selected Works

Books

"Slouch is a skillfully researched, engrossing account of a socially engineered epidemic that captured the public imagination for the better part of a century."—Shelf Awareness

"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."--Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

"Who would have thought that slouching could be so riveting? Acclaimed historian Beth Linker has written an enthralling account of posture, prejudice, panic, and disability. Essential reading for anyone curious about bodies."—Joanna Bourke

A richly detailed book about what it meant—and means—to be 'posture conscious.'"—Jaipreet Virdi

Beth Linker does a wonderful job of straightening out the story of bent backs!"—Jonathan Marks

War's Waste

Voted one of the top 100 Must-Read History of Medicine Books -Book Riot

"One of the most important and readable studies to appear in recent years" -Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"A rich and important history" -Journal of the American Medical Association

"Its relevance to today's challenging realities makes Linker's penetrating study of an earlier war relevant to a wide spectrum of potential readers." -Charles E. Rosenberg

Civil Disabilities

"Insightful, comprehensive, and personal" - Sex and Disability

"An illuminating and truly educational book." - Lennard Davis

"Civil Disabilities leaves no doubt that disability is central to the history, theory, and acts of citizenship." -Kim Nielson

Quick Links

Beth Linker @ Penn

Please visit my University of Pennsylvania faculty webpage

Beth Linker @ academia.edu

Access to many of my academic articles and syllabi