TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petrzela,Natalia Mehlman
TI  - Fit nation: the gains and pains of America's exercise obsession 
SN  - 022665110X
AV  - GV471 .U6 P47 2022
U1  - 306.46130973 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Exercise
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Physical fitness centers
KW  - Physical fitness
KW  - Well-being
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; When sweating was strange -- Slimming the soft American -- From margins to mainstream -- Movement culture, redefined -- Feel the burn -- Hard bodies and soulful selves --  It's not working out
N2  - "Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a leading scholar and proselytizer for physical well-being, elucidates the political and social implications of America's exercise cult(ure). Delving into the paradox of why so many Americans are physically unfit, despite the power of the exercise industry, Petrzela shows fitness to be both a product and a marker of education, social class, wealth, power, and more. Like much in postwar American life, fitness has been privatized, and the resulting dominant ideology of exercise isa product of neoliberal political and culture choices. Petrzela reveals a story that puts Charles Atlas, Jane Fonda, the Chippendales, and so many lesser-known people at the center of American culture, media, and politics"--
ER  -