Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History - Hardcover

Black, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803243707 ISBN 13: 9780803243705

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2013

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"As a book for a popular audience, it will be of interest to diverse readers."-J. L. Croissant, CHOICE -- J. L. Croissant * CHOICE * "The antecedents of the American fitness industry are varied and fascinating, and journalist Black . . . does a superb job of chronicling them."-Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly * "An engrossing history of fitness in the United States. . . . A must-read for fitness buffs and beefy enough to whet the appetite of even the most inert couch potato."-Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews * "An interesting history of physical fitness in America."-Karen Sutherland, Library Journal -- Karen Sutherland * Library Journal * "In Making the American Body, Jonathan Black masterfully explores the many twists and evolutions of the fitness industry, from barbells to exercise machines to today's health clubs."-Jeff Friend, Foreword Reviews -- Jeff Friend * Foreword Reviews * "Making the American Body is a fascinating and informative sprint through the history of body worship from the classical Greeks to the present-day fanatics of fitness."-Pat Jordan, author of A False Spring -- Pat Jordan

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If you thought the fitness craze was about being healthy, think again. Although Charles Atlas, Jack LaLanne, Jim Fixx, Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, and Jillian Michaels might well point the way to a better body, they have done so only if their brands brought in profits. In the first book to tell the full story of the American obsession with fitness and how we got to where we are today, 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. Spanning the nation's fitness obsession from Atlas to Arnold, from Spinning to Zumba, and featuring an outrageous cast of characters bent on whipping us into shape while simultaneously shaping the way we view our bodies, Black tells the story of an outsized but little-examined aspect of our culture. 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.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0803243707
• ISBN 13: 9780803243705
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260