Getting physical : the rise of fitness culture in America / Shelly McKenzie.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture AmericaPublisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]Description: viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780700619061 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0700619062 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613.7 23
LOC classification:
  • GV510.U5 M45 2013
Contents:
Fitness in American culture -- "Fitness begins in the high chair:" exercise in the Cold War -- "Your honeymoon figure:" women's weight reduction 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 you life: jogging in the 1960s and 1970s -- Temples of the body: health clubs and 1980s fitness culture -- The future of fitness.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.

Fitness in American culture -- "Fitness begins in the high chair:" exercise in the Cold War -- "Your honeymoon figure:" women's weight reduction 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 you life: jogging in the 1960s and 1970s -- Temples of the body: health clubs and 1980s fitness culture -- The future of fitness.

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