Fit nation : the gains and pains of America's exercise obsession /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Author’s Note
- Introduction: What Is the Fit Nation? Part One: When Sweating Was Strange
- 1. Performing Civilization
- 2. No More Fat Cats or Ladies of Leisure
- 3. Sanitizing--and Selling--Fitness
- 4. The California Beach Body Is Born
- Part Two: Slimming the Soft American
- 5. White Plains, the White House, and the Paradox of Prosperity
- 6. Fitness Makes Us Strong, Not Soft
- Part Three: From Margins to Mainstream
- 7. The Future Belongs to the Fit
- 8. Training for Life, Body, and Mind
- 9. The "Tanny Touch";10. Slimming on the Small Screen
- Part Four: Movement Culture, Redefined
- 11. Yoga and the Counterculture
- 12. Kenneth Cooper and Aerobics Universalism
- 13. Run for Your Lives!;14. Title IX and Its Limits
- 15. Swap the Fat for Your True Self
- Part Five: Feel the Burn
- 16. Daytime Disco
- 17. The New Gospel of Fitness
- 18. Turning Up the Intensity
- 19. Not Quite Sports
- Part Six: Hard Bodies and Soulful Selves
- 20. Beyond Aerobics with Chanting
- 21. Strong Is the New Skinny?;22. It’s Not Fitness, It’s Life
- Part Seven: It’s Not Working Out
- 23. Exercising in an Age of Uncertainty
- 24. Eat, Pray, Buy
- 25. The Limits of "Let’s Move
- 26. The Pandemic and the Peloton
- 27. Broken Equipment
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.