Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World Friedman Danielle
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World Friedman Danielle A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women's exercise…
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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World Friedman Danielle
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. Seven decades ago, sweating was "unladylike" and girls grew up believing that physical exertion would cause their uterus to "fall out." Most hid their muscle under sleeves and skirts. But it wasn't always this way.
When they did, journalist Danielle Friedman argues, they were participating in something subversive: the pursuit of physical strength and personal autonomy.In Let's Get It was only in the Sixties that, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, women began to move en masse.