A review by zombiezami
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman

funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

Truly wonderful and made me appreciate how far progress has come in terms of women feeling comfortable exercising. I suspect, however, that the history of Black people and Black women specifically in fitness is not as peripheral as the author makes out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Fatphobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Racism, Classism, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Addiction, Cursing, Incest, Genocide, Pregnancy, War, Antisemitism, Drug abuse, and Pedophilia