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Let's Get Physical How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

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 exp...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra described it as a fun, anecdoterich history of women in fitness and American culture, showing how society polices and women reclaim their bodies.

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I loved Let's Get Physical by Daniel Friedman. It's a history of women in fitness and women in America and the sort of overlapping cultural ways in which society polices women bodies and women try to...

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Ezra described it as a fun, anecdoterich history of women in fitness and American culture, showing how society polices and women reclaim their bodies.

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I loved Let's Get Physical by Daniel Friedman. It's a history of women in fitness and women in America and the sort of overlapping cultural ways in which society polices women bodies and women try to take ownership of their bodies. And it's so fun and some really interesting anecdotes.

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