Fathering Through Sport and Leisure

Fourteen international academics and researchers contribute 13 chapters of research investigating fathers, sport and leisure; the collection is an expanded, updated, and diversified version of a themed issue of the Leisure Studies journal published in 2006 focusing on leisure and fathering. Drawing on research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, the text includes an overview of contemporary fathering and then examines the centrality of sport and leisure in contemporary fathering, for both resident and non-resident fathers; societal expectations and men's ideas about how to perform the fathering role; father-daughter relationships in sport and the gendered nature of sport; non-resident fathers' leisure patterns with their children, and their satisfaction with those experiences; relationships between culture, religion, fathering, and leisure; fathers' roles in the negotiation of couple time with their partners; and future research directions. For academics, researchers, and students in leisure, family, and fatherhood studies. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)