Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

Let's get physical : how women discovered exercise and reshaped the world / Danielle Friedman.

by Friedman, Danielle, author.

View full image

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]

Exercise for women -- History.

Physical fitness.

9780593188422 (hardcover) :

059318842X (hardcover) :

xxiii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Sweat -- Reduce -- Tuck -- Run -- Bounce -- Burn -- Lift -- Stretch -- Expand -- Where are they now?

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 women began to move en masse. Friedman reveals the hidden history of contemporary women's fitness culture, and shows how exercise evolved from a beauty tool pitched almost exclusively as a way to "reduce" into a path to mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Each chapter uncovers the birth of a fitness movement that laid the foundation for working out today-- and how fitness can create a more powerful sisterhood. -- adapted from jacket

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal