Ladies Night Out, featuring
Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Thursday, March 7, 2024
7 PM
Shalom Park
Sam Lerner Center for Cultural Arts
Join the Center for Jewish Education, JFGC Women's Philanthropy and the Levine JCC for a fun night celebrating women’s empowerment and fitness with author Danielle Friedman. You'll have the opportunity to get physical with LJCC Director of Fitness and Wellness Lyn Addy, enjoy drinks and heavy hors d'oevres, and hear about Danielle Friedman's book Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World.
Author Talk, Q&A, Book Signing
Books may be purchased online at https://bookshop.org/shop/jewishcharlotte or at the event. Online purchases will support Independent Bookstores and the Center for Jewish Education.
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About the Book:
A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that 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 much of the twentieth century, sweating was considered “unladylike” and girls grew up believing physical exertion would cause their uterus to “fall out.” It was only in the Sixties that, thanks to a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers, women began to move en masse. In Let’s Get Physical, journalist Danielle Friedman reveals the fascinating untold history of contemporary fitness culture, chronicling in vivid, cinematic prose how exercise evolved from a beauty tool pitched almost exclusively as a way to “reduce” into one millions have harnessed as a path to mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
About the Author:
Danielle Friedman is an award-winning journalist who specializes in telling stories at the intersection of health, gender, and culture. Her first book, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, was published by Putnam Books (Penguin Random House) in the US and Icon Books in the UK in January 2022. It was selected as a New Yorker, Financial Times, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.
