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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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9783030197834

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Negotiating Fatherhood: Sport and Family Practices by Fletcher (2020) makes a timely contribution to the field of sport, leisure, and family studies. ... Fletcher's (2020) book provides valuable information on the political, familial, and sociocultural influences on fathering in relation to sports, fatherhood, and leisure. ... the author's critical overview of scholarly advancement in the fields of fathering, sport, and leisure, make the book a relevant and timely scholarly work. (Michelle Bauer, Annals of Leisure Research, November 25, 2019)

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Thomas Fletcher is Senior Lecturer, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

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