Handbook

By: Jane Fonda

Date: 1981

Source: Fonda, Jane. Jane Fonda's Workout Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, 9–10, 35, 67–68.

About the Author: Jane Fonda (1937–), the daughter of actor Henry Fonda, grew up in California and New York. Gaining fame in a series of light comedies in the 1960s, Fonda eventually was acclaimed as one of the greatest actresses of her generation with Academy Award-winning roles in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). She also provoked measures of admiration and criticism for her role in the anti-war movement, including a controversial trip to North Vietnam to protest America's involvement in Southeast Asia. In 1979 Fonda established the first of her Workout studios in Los Angeles; the publication of Jane Fonda's Workout Book followed in 1981. The book sold more than two million copies, and an accompanying...