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Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela · University of Chicago Press · 2022
Why this source matters
The current standard academic history of American fitness culture, with substantial coverage of the women-led dance-exercise industry that most sports-history writing skips.
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