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Beth Linker

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Twist and Shout: Music, Race, and Medical Moralization

On the role that medical and health professionals played in raising suspicions of The Twist.

by Beth Linker, Hannah Yusuf via Nursing Clio on September 3, 2025

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

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Skeletons in a museum posed with varying postures, as if they are performing different tasks.

Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture

The 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.

by Zoe Adams via The Nation on November 20, 2024

A photograph of four children standing, one is slouching.

Are You Sitting Up Straight? America’s Obsession with Improving Posture

In Beth Linker’s new book, she applies a disability studies lens to the history of posture.

by Laura Ansley via Perspectives on History on May 9, 2024

Examining 20th-Century America’s Obsession With Poor Posture

A new book explores the nation’s now-faded preoccupation with the 'epidemic' of hunched bodies.

by Katherine Unger Baillie via Penn Today on June 7, 2018

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