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100 1 _aPetrzela, Natalia Mehlman,
245 1 0 _aFit nation :
_bthe gains and pains of America's exercise obsession /
_cNatalia Mehlman Petrzela.
260 _aChicago :
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c2022.
264 1 _aChicago :
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c2022.
300 _a1 volume :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm.
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aWhen 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aExercise
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPhysical fitness centers
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPhysical fitness
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWell-being
_zUnited States.
999 _c523144
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