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- W2079945438 abstract "Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America Shelly McKenzie. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013.In Getting Physical, Shelly McKenzie guides the reader on a historical jaunt to examine fitness culture from the mid-1950s through the late 1980s, situating the concepts of fitness, exercise, and health historically and arguing how they have impacted contemporary American culture. It is a lot to cover in a short cultural history, but, like the joggers she studies, McKenzie moves quickly and purposefully through five chapters focused in theme and historical period: children's fitness in the 1950s; women's appearance-based fitness in the 1960s; men's cardiac crisis in the 1950s and 1960s; jogging in the 1970s; and health clubs and their importance for 1980s fitness. Each chapter can stand alone but, as the organization suggests, each ties thoughtfully into the others.McKenzie locates her work in contemporary discourses of health, fitness, and exercise, establishing a clear distinction between thoughts about exercise and fitness in 1958, when fitness included massages, bowling, and freedom from Russian influence but not much strenuous activity, and today, when the First Lady promotes a government program to improve children's fitness by doing pushups on live television. There are clear stakes to McKenzie's work, and she convincingly argues for the need to look back at the history of fitness in order to see how it has shaped contemporary ideas about health and the social problems that have resulted. The book's five chapters are only the start of a much larger endeavor, but they are a solid start as McKenzie situates her work differently from scholarship focused on other aspects of active bodies, such as body studies and sports histories.While focusing on middle-class Americans during the Cold War, McKenzie finds some surprisingly under-examined niches and makes excellent use of them to offer a historical trajectory with special case studies. She highlights two important moments in fitness and exercise, governmental support for children's fitness and the rise of jogging culture, in the first and fourth chapters, arguing for earlier beginnings than others cite. The two chapters in between are less interested in chronology and more in the long-term implications of women's and men's health promotion, pointing to the impression they made on contemporary expectations about women's appearance and men's disinterest in their medical health. …" @default.
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- W2079945438 title "Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America ShellyMcKenzie. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013." @default.
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