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Negotiating Fatherhood: Sport and Family Practices

Negotiating Fatherhood: Sport and Family Practices

Fletcher, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

Sports GeneralGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 3030197832
ISBN13: 9783030197834
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 2 2019
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Winner of the Leisure Studies Association's Outstanding Book Prize

This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they negotiate contemporary expectations of fatherhood and fulfill their own expectations of what it means to be a 'good' father. There is little doubt that today's fathers are responding to new expectations about fatherhood and fathering practices. The remote, detached, breadwinning father of the past, once lauded as a masculine ideal, has faded, and men are now expected to be 'involved', 'intimate', 'caring' and 'domesticated' fathers. Using a family practices lens and a case study of sport, Fletcher elucidates the changes and continuities in family and fathering practices in different historical periods and contexts. Negotiating Fatherhood will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in family and fathering practices, sport, leisure, and gender.

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