Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Danielle Friedman, "Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World"
English | ISBN: 059318842X | 2022 | 352 pages | AZW | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 059318842X | 2022 | 352 pages | AZW | 11 MB
A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women’s exercise culture–from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda–and how women have parlayed physical strength into other forms of power.
For American women today, working out is as accepted as it is expected, fueling a multibillion-dollar fitness industrial complex. But it wasn’t always this way. For much of the twentieth century, sweating was considered unladylike and girls grew up believing physical exertion would cause their uterus to literally fall out. It was only in the sixties that, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, women began to move en masse.
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