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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B093N12N3Z | 2022 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Danielle Friedman
Narrator: Danielle Friedman
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 20th 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 '60s that, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, women began to move en masse. In Let's Get Physical, journalist Danielle Friedman reveals the fascinating hidden history of contemporary women's fitness culture, chronicling in vivid, cinematic prose how exercise evolved from a beauty tool pitched almost exclusively as a way to "reduce" into one millions have harnessed as a path to mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.