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Iron Dads: Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities

- Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities

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  • Engelsk
  • 224 sider

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Among the most difficult athletic events a person can attempt, the iron-distance triathlon-a 140.6 mile competition-requires an intense prerace training program. This preparation can be as much as twenty hours per week for a full year leading up to a race. In Iron Dads, Diana Tracy Cohen focuses on the pressures this extensive preparation can place on families, exploring the ways in which men with full-time jobs, one or more children, and other responsibilities fit this level of training into their lives.    An accomplished triathlete as well as a trained social scientist, Cohen offers much insight into the effects of endurance-sport training on family, parenting, and the sense of self.  She conducted in-depth interviews with forty-seven iron-distance competitors and three prominent men in the race industry, and analyzed triathlon blog postings made by Iron Dads. What sacrifices, Cohen asks, are required-both at home and at work-to cross the iron-distance finish line? What happens when work, family, and sport collide?  Is it possible for fathers to meet their own parenting expectations while pursuing such a time-consuming regimen? With the tensions of family economics, how do you justify spending $5,000 on a racing bike? At what point does sport become work?  Cohen discovered that, by fostering family involvement in this all-consuming effort, Iron Dads are able to maintain a sense of themselves not only as strong, masculine competitors, but also as engaged fathers.    Engagingly written and well researched, Iron Dads provides a penetrating, firsthand look at extreme endurance sports, including practical advice for aspiring racers and suggestions for making triathlons more family-friendly.

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal224
  • Udgivelsesdato23-10-2013
  • ISBN139780813570945
  • Forlag Rutgers University Press
  • Nummer i serien429
  • MålgruppeFrom age 18
  • FormatHæftet
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  • Vægt290 g
  • Dybde1,1 cm
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