Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

In her book "The Story of Women's Exercise Culture," Danielle Friedman explores the history of women's exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda, and how physical strength has been converted into other forms of power. Only in the 60s did women begin to move en masse, seeking physical strength and personal autonomy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 06 January 2022
Publisher: Icon Books

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022

Well-researched and readable

- Financial Times

An absorbing,pacy read

- New Statesman

The story of lycra-clad feminism

Stylist

Canny and informative

- The New Yorker

The untold history of women's exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda.

Author of The Cut's viral article, shared thousands of times, unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the history of women's exercise, and how physical strength has been converted into other forms of power.

Only in the 60s, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, did women begin to move en masse.

In doing so, they were pursuing not only physical strength, but personal autonomy.

Exploring barre, jogging, aerobics, weight training, and yoga, Danielle Friedman tells the story of how, with the rise of late-20th-century feminism, women discovered the joy of physical competence - and how, going forward, we can work to transform fitness from a privilege into a right.

Weight: 478g
Dimension: 147 x 224 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785788093