Fatherhood, UK political culture and the new politics

Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society - Tập 17 - Trang 204-221 - 2012
Candida Yates1
1School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London, London, UK

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This article discusses the trope of fatherhood and its deployment within the UK political scene to ask how and why this has become a strategy in the post-ideological context of contemporary party politics. It uses psychoanalytic ideas to explore the fantasies of what is at stake in such a move and explores how politicians can be read as symptomatic of broader struggles around hegemonic masculinity as represented within the celebritized arena of political culture.

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