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Fathering through sport and leisure

Title
Fathering through sport and leisure / edited by Tess Kay.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, ©2009.

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Additional Authors
Kay, Tess.
Description
xvi, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This study examines an underrepresented and highly topical area of social study. It tells us how we can understand fathers and fathering practices better if we examine the role of sport and leisure in their relationships with their children and their partners.
Subject
  • Fatherhood
  • Father and child
  • Leisure
  • Sports
  • leisure
  • sports
  • Vater
  • Kind
  • Freizeitverhalten
  • Freizeitsport
  • Vaterschaft
  • Familienbeziehung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-282) and index.
Contents
The landscape of fathering / Tess Kay -- 'Until the ball glows in the twilight' : fatherhood, baseball, and the game of playing catch / Ralph Larossa -- The good father : parental expectations and youth sports / Jay Coakley -- Sport mad, good dads : Australian fathering through leisure and sport practices / Maureen Harrington -- Fatherhood, the morality of personal time and leisure-based parenting / Liz Such -- With one eye on the clock : non-resident dads' time use, work and leisure with their children / John Jenkins -- Fathers and sons : being 'Father Angel' / Tess Kay -- Fathers and daughters : negotiating gendered relationships in sport / Nicole Willms -- Divorce and recreation : non-resident fathers' leisure during parenting time with their children / Alisha T. Swinton, Patti A. Freeman and Ramon B. Zabriskie -- Traditional marriages, non-traditional leisure : leisure and fathering in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / Patti A. Freeman, Birgitta Baker and Ramon B. Zabriskie -- Rising to the challenge : fathers' roles in the negotiation of couple time / Vera Dyck and Kerry Daly -- Where are the kids?: researching fathering, sport and leisure through children's voices / Ruth Jeanes -- Reaching out : widening research into fathering, sport and leisure / Tess Kay.
ISBN
  • 9780415438681
  • 9780415438704
  • 9780203890707
  • 0415438683
  • 0415438705
  • 0203890701
LCCN
2009000196
OCLC
  • ocn166383166
  • 166383166
  • SCSB-14698139
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library