If you're in the Philly area and want to be relieved of any guilt that you have about your posture, come to my talk this coming Monday evening! @princetonupress.bsky.social
Happy that TNR review of #slouch is on this list! "As Beth Linker...makes clear in her robust, often astonishing new book...erect carriages are markers of American conformity...Linker shows how ableism threaded the country’s social fabric and wove into its growing industries...."
Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Becca Rothfeld on Charlotte Shane’s An Honest Woman, Hillary Kelly on Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Megan O’Grady on Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox, Danie…
Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level Deadline September 6, 2024, 11 pm CDT. #histsci#HistMedapply.interfolio.com/148215
📣Needed 📢Volunteer panel chairs at #SSHM2024#histmed#skytorians
SSHM 2024 is almost here! You can see the current provisional programme here. Conference registration will close on Tuesday 9th July. So if you are interested in attending, but have not yet registered...
I'm a bit partial because I'm a contributor to this, but it is a great volume!
Really happy to have @lmansley.bsky.social#slouch@princetonupress.bsky.social
My latest #AHAPerspectives article is an interview with @bethlinker.bsky.social about her fascinating new book, Slouch. (And of course I am slouching as I type this.) 🗃️@princetonupress.bsky.social
In Beth Linker’s new book, she applies a disability studies lens to the history of posture.
Manifest it!
