Making the American body [electronic resource] : the remarkable saga of the men and women whose feats, feuds, and passions shaped fitness history / Jonathan Black.
2013
GV510.U5 B53 2013eb
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Making the American body [electronic resource] : the remarkable saga of the men and women whose feats, feuds, and passions shaped fitness history / Jonathan Black.
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9780803248922 electronic book
9780803243705
9780803243705
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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English
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1 online resource (xv, 223 p.) : ill.
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GV510.U5 B53 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
613.7
Summary
"Jonathan Black gives us a backstage look at an industry and the people that have left an indelible mark on the American body and the consciousness it houses. ... With insights drawn from more than fifty interviews and attention to key developments in bodybuilding, aerobics, equipment, health clubs, running, sports medicine, group exercise, Pilates, and yoga, Making the American Body reveals how a focus on fitness has shaped not only our physiques but also, and more profoundly, American ideas of what 'fitness' is."--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The shape of history
Selling the body beautiful, 1900-1930s
America shapes up, 1930s-1950s
The machine age, 1960s-1970s
Gotta move, 1960s-1980s
The buff culture, 1970s-1990s
Pumping up business, 1980s-1990s
Fitness today
Why exercise?
Selling the body beautiful, 1900-1930s
America shapes up, 1930s-1950s
The machine age, 1960s-1970s
Gotta move, 1960s-1980s
The buff culture, 1970s-1990s
Pumping up business, 1980s-1990s
Fitness today
Why exercise?