Height matters: The experiences of very tall young British adults in relation to managing everyday occupations

Beyond ‘heightism’ and ‘height premium’: An anthropology and sociology of human stature

“…Beyond the body itself, moreover, height can be 'performed': women and men in the Philippines, for instance, wear high-heeled shoes in a diverse range of settings to look taller (Lasco, 2023a), while tall young adults in the UK end up slouching (Booth et al, 2019). Such practices resonate with works that look at the moral and social underpinning of posture, finding it to be closely linked to, and often just as important as stature (Gilman, 2014(Gilman, , 2018.…”

“…Conversely, very tall young adults in United Kingdom also struggle with “things that are set up for normal people [sic]”, including clothes, showers, gym equipment, and the overall built environment (Booth et al., 2019, p. 237).…”

“…At some point in early adulthood, vertical growth stops, but the making of height does not end there, as the growing practice of leg‐lengthening surgery shows (Hosny, 2020; see Shukla, 2009 for a personal account). Beyond the body itself, moreover, height can be ‘performed’: women and men in the Philippines, for instance, wear high‐heeled shoes in a diverse range of settings to look taller (Lasco, 2023a), while tall young adults in the UK end up slouching (Booth et al., 2019). Such practices resonate with works that look at the moral and social underpinning of posture, finding it to be closely linked to, and often just as important as stature (Gilman, 2014, 2018).…”

Meeting in diversity – Occupation as common ground: Occupational science perspectives from and for Europe

“…A narrative approach is also employed by Booth, Rihtman, Leddington, Wright, Taylor, and Price (2019) to capture the occupational perspectives of their research participants. They identify adults with a very tall stature (above the 97 th percentile for height) as a group which had paradoxically been overlooked by occupational science research so far.…”