Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America (Cultureamerica)
"Early twenty-first century conceptions of physical fitness are often assumed to be scientific truths . . . Shelly McKenzie's Getting Physical reveals that these truths have a specific cultural history encompassing a range of understandings and experiences of the fit body from the 1950s to the present."—Journal of American History"A compelling, cohesive, and easy to follow account of the evolution of fitness culture in the United States."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History