And there was also a shift toward self-improvement. The 1970s - the writer Tom Wolfe famously dubbed it the Me Decade. After the kind of activism of the '60s, Americans and baby boomers in particular ...

“I think of women’s fitness history as B.J. and A.J. — Before Jane and After Jane,” Ken Alan, a kinesiologist who taught aerobics in the 1970s, said in a 2020 interview. Ms. Fonda ...

Wiltshire’s unlikely victory, a first in Britain for a professional female Flat jockey, also came against the backdrop of the 1970s in a sport ... reluctantly allowed women to officially train ...