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Iron dads : managing family, work, and endurance sport identities / Diana Tracy Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813573748
  • 9780813570969
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV1060 .I766 2016
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Contents:
Inside triathlon culture -- To tri or not to try -- The juggling act -- Why class matters -- Faith meets 140.6 -- Throwing in the towel -- The road ahead.
Subject: An accomplished triathlete and social scientist, Diana Tracy Cohen offers much insight into the effects of endurance-sport training on family, parenting, and the sense of self.  Based in part on in-depth interviews with forty-seven triathletes and three prominent men in the race industry, Iron Dads explores the sacrifices that are required-both at home and at work-to cross an iron-distance finish line.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Taking the first step -- Inside triathlon culture -- To tri or not to try -- The juggling act -- Why class matters -- Faith meets 140.6 -- Throwing in the towel -- The road ahead.

An accomplished triathlete and social scientist, Diana Tracy Cohen offers much insight into the effects of endurance-sport training on family, parenting, and the sense of self.  Based in part on in-depth interviews with forty-seven triathletes and three prominent men in the race industry, Iron Dads explores the sacrifices that are required-both at home and at work-to cross an iron-distance finish line.

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