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ISBN 10: 0415438705 

ISBN 13: 9780415438704

Author: Tess Kay

Fathering is a highly contested concept in popular, media, academic and policy discourses, yet in the areas of family studies and men’s studies the leisure component of family life is under-played. This book provides a long overdue and thorough investigation of the relationship between fatherhood, sport, and leisure. Fathering Through Sport and Leisure investigates what fathers actually do in the time they spend with their children. Leading researchers from the fields of sport, leisure and family studies examine the tensions men encounter as they endeavour to meet the new expectations of fatherhood, and the central role that sport and leisure play in overcoming this. Analyzed in relation to social trends and current policy debates, this unique collection examines fathering in a wide range of contexts including: parental expectation and youth sports fathers and daughters leisure time and couple time in dual earner families divorce, fatherhood and leisure. The book shows how contemporary fathers use sport and leisure to engage with their sons and daughters, achieve emotional closeness and fulfil their own expectations of what it means to be a ‘good father’. Drawing on research carried out in the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States, this is a crucial text for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, family studies or fatherhood.

Table of contents:

1 The landscape of fathering
Defining terms: fathers, fatherhood and fathering
Identifying the parameters of fatherhood
Fathers
Fathers in families
Fathers in the labour market
Fathers in the state
Fathers: diverse and divided
Fathering
Negotiating the fatherhood dilemma
Fathering through work?
Involved fathering?
Fathering through sport and leisure?

2 ‘Until the ball glows in the twilight’
Baseball and fatherhood
The game of playing catch
Who
Where
When
How
Why
Future research
Notes

3 The good father
The growth of youth sports
Fathers and fatherhood in contemporary society
Fathers and youth sports
Parental commitment to youth sports
Notes

4 Sport mad, good dads
Feminist contributions to understanding family leisure
Parents and family leisure
Fatherhood and leisure
Fatherhood, sport and family leisure in Australia
Methodology and study sample
Fathers talking about leisure in the family
Being with and doing with family
The family paradigm and generations of fathering
Sport as a context for fathering
Showing interest and bonding through children’s sport
Fathers’ talk on values from children’s sport
Leisure contexts other than sport for fathering
Conclusion

5 Fatherhood, the morality of personal time and leisure-based parenting
Fatherhood, dual-earning and leisure
Methods and study group
The patterns of the lifecourse
Leisure and the pre-children phase of the lifecourse
Parenting and the curtailment of autonomous leisure
‘Moral’ fatherhood as contested terrain
Leisure-based fatherhood?
Discussion and conclusion

6 With one eye on the clock
Non-residential fathers
Studying fathers’ time use, work and leisure
Time use and non-resident fathers’ work
Non-resident fathers’ leisure and contact with their children
Methodology
The respondents
The work and parent–child-contact ‘conundrum’
Free time and time pressure: dads’ leisure with their children
Discussion and conclusions

7 Fathers and sons
Fathers and fathering
Fathering through sport
The study
Findings
Sample characteristics
Involvement and connectedness through football
Generativity: the extent to which fathers view sport as a vehicle for ‘generative parenting’, i.e. for preparing their children for adult life
Ideology and reflexivity
Discussion
Conclusion
Note

8 Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters in sport
The study
Fathers and daughters sharing sport
Bonding through sport
Improper imposition
Over-involvement
Advice and instruction
Making decisions
Acting improperly during competitions
Verbal/emotional abuse
Responding to fathers’ involvement
Reproductive agency
Resistance
Renegotiation
Conclusions
Notes

9 Divorce and recreation
Research into fathers, divorce and leisure
Divorce and fathers
Non-resident father involvement
Family leisure patterns
Satisfaction with family leisure involvement
The study
Methodology
Sample
Procedures
Instrumentation
Data analysis
Results
Discussion
Non-resident fathers’ leisure patterns
Non-resident fathers’ leisure satisfaction
Further research

10 Traditional marriages, non traditional leisure
The research context
Defining culture
Religion
Fathering
Leisure
Men’s leisure
Methods
Study setting
Procedures and data analysis
Participants
Results
Paid employment, family and church provided satisfaction and meaning
An ideal father provides for the physical, emotional and intellectual needs of his family
Religion shaped fathering beliefs
Guilt and role obligations produced a mismatch between ideal and current leisure
Ideal leisure
Current leisure
Guilt and family obligations constrained personal leisure
Personal leisure is valued for individual benefits
Family leisure helped fulfil cultural ideals of fathering
Discussion
Conclusion

11 Rising to the challenge
Couple time, relationship issues and parenting
Gender and the construction of couple time
Theoretical influences
Method
Design
Sampling
Participants
Data collection and analysis
Findings and discussion
The meanings of couple time
The context: cultural values and limited social support for couple time
Negotiating couple time: fathers instigate, mothers implement
Reconciling egalitarian parenting and traditional courtship: ambivalence in the planning of couple time
Strategies: rising to the challenge
Developing research into fathers’ and couple time
Note

12 Where are the kids?
Why listen to children? The broader UK policy context
Hearing the child? The missing children in research into sport, leisure and family
Undertaking research into children’s experiences of sport, leisure, fathering and family: lessons from social policy and sport research
Developing child-centred research into sport, leisure, fathering and family

13 Reaching out
Cultural contexts of fathering
African American fathers: an example of fathering and family contexts among a minority ethnic group in western industrialised states
Black South African fathers: an example of fathering and family contexts in a southern hemisphere ‘developing country’
Aboriginal fathers: an example of fathering and family contexts among Indigenous People
Studying fathering, sport and leisure in diverse cultural contexts
Fathers and faith
Incorporating religious faith in research into fathering, sport and leisure
Gay fathers
The possibility of fatherhood
Becoming a father
The practice of fathering
Gay men broadening concepts of fathering
Conclusions: paths ahead for research into fathering, sport and leisure
Endnote

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