Come on my son! examining fathers, masculinity and 'fathering through football'

Annals of Leisure Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 273-288

  Jeanes, Ruth ^a   Magee, Jonathan ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elite; Fathering; Gender; Identity construction; Junior football; Sons; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867606858     PISSN: 11745398     EISSN: 21596816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2011.616483     Document Type: Article

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