Daddy Issues: Love and Hate in the Time of Patriarchy

Katherine Angel

Nov 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Cat Gould

About this audiobook

On the fraught bonds between daughters and their fathers, women, and the patriarchy In this beguiling, incisive book, critically acclaimed writer Katherine Angel examines the place of fathers in contemporary culture with her characteristic mix of boldness and nuance, asking how the mixture of love and hatred we feel toward our fathers-and patriarchal father figures-can be turned into a relationship that is generative rather than destructive. Moving deftly between psychoanalysis from Freud to Winnicott, cultural visions of fathering from King Lear to Ivanka Trump, and issues from incest to MeToo, Angel probes the fraught bond of daughters and fathers, women and the patriarchal regime. What, she asks, is this discomfiting space of love and hate-and how are we to reckon with both fealty and rebellion? As in her earlier book Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Angel proves herself to be one of the most perceptive feminist writers at work today.

About the author

Katherine Angel is the author of Daddy Issues, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, and Unmastered. She teaches creative and critical writing at the University of London, and her writing has appeared in Granta, the White Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.

Cat Gould grew up in Sydney, Australia, and after extensive travel moved to the United States in 1990. A classically trained actress with a BFA from Southern Oregon University, she has performed in many regional productions.