Practices and meaning of purposive family leisure among working- and middle-class families

Leisure Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 471-486

  Harrington, Maureen ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

class; family display; family leisure; family practices; purposive leisure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929844368     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.938767     Document Type: Article

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