This site has limited support for your browser. We recommend switching to Edge, Chrome, Safari, or Firefox.

La consegna entro Natale è garantita per gli ordini ricevuti entro l'11 dicembre

Cart 0

Congratulations! Your order qualifies for free shipping You are missing €30 to get free shipping.
No more products available for purchase

Products
Pair with
Add order notes
Is this a gift?
Subtotal Free

View cart
Shipping, taxes, and discount codes are calculated at checkout

Bella di papà

€17,00

Because patriarchy begins within the walls of the home.

Synopsis

Have you seen Meet the Parents, the movie with Robert De Niro? He is Jack, a former CIA agent. Suspicious and obsessive, he is about to meet his daughter's would-be husband: he is the alpha male father competing with the new guy, convinced that no one is as good as his little girl. The father's jealousy, and hostility towards his "replacement", are not up for discussion; we already know that things are going to go badly, thanks to the casual admission that fathers do this. But none of this bothers us. Why?

This is the question Katherine Angel poses in this bold and refined essay: is it possible to free ourselves from the figure of the father, from our daddy issues? Through news stories, films, TV series, psychoanalysis and the work of authors such as Virginia Woolf, Daddy's Beauty brings to light a problem that until now has been relegated to the private sphere: how the power exercised by fathers over daughters has pervaded, ubiquitously but invisibly, our imagination. If we are to free ourselves from patriarchy, then it is vital to try to put fathers back in their place.

Details

Translation by Alice Spano, Veronica Raimo
Year of publication: March 2021
Number of pages: 118 pages
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9788831321143

Author

Katherine Angel holds a PhD in the History of Psychiatry and Sexuality from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. After graduating with a degree in Philosophy, she was awarded a scholarship to Harvard. After completing her PhD, she won several research grants. Angel's studies on "female sexual dysfunction," American psychiatry, sexology, and feminism have been published in journals such as History of the Human Sciences, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Current Opinion in Psychiatry.

[{"variant_id":"42851487219962" , "metafield_value":""}]

Bella di papà

€17,00

Free tote bag with the purchase of two books

Free tote bag with the purchase of two books

Free shipping

Shipping is free throughout Italy starting from €30

Free tote bag

With the purchase of at least two books from our shop

Customer care

We are available from Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm

Secure payments

We accept major credit card circuits and PayPal