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Leisure Sciences
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Volume 38, 2016 - Issue 1
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Original Articles

‘A Whole New World’: Mothers' Technologically Mediated Leisure

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Pages 50-67 | Received 23 Aug 2014, Accepted 17 Apr 2015, Published online: 15 Jul 2015

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