Women and Fitness in American Culture(English, Paperback, Hentges Sarah)

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Women and Fitness in American Culture(English, Paperback, Hentges Sarah) is written by Hentges Sarah and published by McFarland & Co Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786474807 (ISBN 10) and 9780786474806 (ISBN 13).

This book explores common representations and experiences of American fitness. It takes women's experiences as the center of inquiry toward an understanding of the function of fitness in our lives and in our culture-at-large. Ranging from 1968 to the present, from Jane Fonda to WiiFit, from revolution to institutionalization, from personal to political, and beyond, this book considers a broad range of topics from an interdisciplinary perspective: generations, cultural appropriation, community development, choreography, methodology, healing, and social justice. Drawing on her experience as a cultural theorist, educator and fitness instructor, the author offers critical and creative approaches that reveal the limitations and possibilities of fitness. The book enables readers to think about their own relationship to fitness as well as the more abstract meanings of the term, and suggests the idea that fitness has some potential to transform our worlds--if we're willing to do the work(out).