Description: Danielle Friedman | Health, Sex, and Culture Journalist
Danielle Friedman is an award-winning health, sex, and culture journalist whose writing has appeared in The Cut, Glamour, The Daily Beast, NBC News, Newsweek, and other publications.
A CAPTIVATING BLEND OF REPORTAGE AND PERSONAL NARRATIVE, LET’S GET PHYSICAL EXPLORES THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF WOMEN’S EXERCISE CULTURE—FROM JOGGING AND JAZZERCISE TO JANE FONDA—AND HOW WOMEN HAVE PARLAYED PHYSICAL STRENGTH INTO OTHER FORMS OF POWER
For many women today, working out is as accepted as it is expected, fueling a multibillion-dollar fitness industrial complex. But it wasn’t always this way. For much of the twentieth century, sweating was considered unladylike and girls grew up believing physical exertion would cause their uterus to literally fall out. It was only in the sixties that, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, women began to move en masse.