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

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Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]

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Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	613.7 MCKENZIE	Check Shelf
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Description	viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Culture America
	Culture America.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
Contents	Introduction: 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 your life: jogging in the 1960s and 1970s -- Temples of the body: health clubs and 1980s fitness culture -- Epilogue: The future of fitness.
Summary	"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 exercise and made the pursuit of fitness the hallmark of a middle-class lifestyle. Along the way she scrutinizes a number of widely held beliefs about Americans and their exercise routines, such as the link between diet and exercise and the importance of workplace fitness programs."-- Book jacket flap.
Subject	Physical fitness -- United States -- History.
	Exercise -- United States -- History.
	Exercise. (OCoLC)fst00917991
	Physical fitness. (OCoLC)fst01062569
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Fitness.
	Sportliche Aktivität.
	United States.
	Fysisk träning.
	Kondition.
	Förenta staterna.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780700619061 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	0700619062 (cloth ; alk. paper)

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