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Getting Physical : The Rise of Fitness Culture in America /
"In this first book on the modern history of exercise in America, Shelly McKenzie chronicles the governmental, scientific, commercial, and cultural forces that united--sometimes unintentionally--to make exercise an all-American habit. She tracks the development of a new industry that gentrified...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Fitness in American culture
- Fitness begins in the high chair: exercise in the Cold War
- Your honeymoon figure: women's weight reductin and exercise in the 1960s
- The heart of the man in the gray flannel suit: men's exercise promotion and the cardiac crisis
- Run for your life: jogging in the 1960s and 1970s
- Temples of the body: health clubs and 1980s fitness culture
- Epilogue: the future of fitness.