The complicated history of women's fitness

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Personal fitness for women used to be considered unladylike. That all changed with fitness pioneers like Lotte Berk and Judi Sheppard Missett. But look closer and there’s much more to the story than jazz shoes and leg warmers. Danielle Friedman and Jessica Rihal join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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0:47.6	I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store and from Magna Chakrabardi.
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1:01.6	Danielle Friedman is a journalist and author.
1:04.4	Her new book on the history of women and exercise is Let's Get Physical.
1:09.7	How women discover to exercise and reshape the world.
1:13.4	Danielle, before we dive into that history, can you tell us what you're doing?
1:17.6	Tell us a little bit about that day in 2017 when you walked into a Manhattan exercise studio.
1:25.2	What was happening in your life and what promised did that studio hold for you?
1:29.8	Hi, Kimberly.
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