Danielle Friedman is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine's The Cut, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Health, and other publications. She has worked as a senior editor at NBC News Digital and The Daily Beast, and she began her career as a nonfiction book editor at the Penguin imprints Hudson Street Press and Plume. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
A well-researched and readable account of how female pioneers broke
the taboos that stopped most women exercising until at least the
1960s. Friedman, a journalist, emphasises that fitness has remained
accessible primarily to white women with time and resources. Now
some pioneers are trying to break those exclusionary barriers
too.
*Financial Times, best summer books of 2022*
An absorbing, pacy read - and her enthusiasm for exercise is
contagious.
*New Statesman*
Fact-packed but bouncy ... Most enjoyable is when Friedman shines
light on less hallowed figures, like Judi Sheppard Missett, the
relentlessly upbeat founder of Jazzercise, whose classes "changed
the rhythm of women's days"; and Bonnie Prudden, "the lady in the
leotite" and a descendant of Davy Crockett...[Friedman's] book is
very much "pro" exercise, but for the right reasons: not slimming
down but mood management, community, spirituality in the
corporal.
*The New York Times*
Astute and entertaining ... With an emphasis on barrier breakers,
business dynamos, and exceptional athletes, Friedman explores how
physical training can be a means of personal liberation ... This
zippy history is bursting with energy.
*Publishers Weekly*
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