"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?"--
Begehren ist politisch, und Sexualität ist Macht. Einverständnis und sexuelle Gewalt schliessen sich nicht aus. Wir wissen nicht immer, was wir wollen. Und Intimität ist komplexer, als ?Nein heisst Nein? glauben lässt. Katherine Angel nähert sich den heikelsten Themen der aktuellen Debatten über Sexualität, weibliches Begehren und Macht. Sie zeigt: Verletzlichkeit und unbewusste Wünsche und Ängste lassen sich auch durch Gesetze nicht aus der Welt schaffen. In klarer Sprache, mit Blick auf Philosophie, Geschichte und Sexualforschung lotet sie die Graubereiche der Intimität aus IBM verbunden mit einer Mahnung, die zugleich ein grosses Versprechen ist: Erst wenn wir einander in unserer Verwundbarkeit wirklich ernst nehmen, wird Sex morgen wieder gut. (Verlagsinformation)
Writing the recent history of mental health services requires a conscious departure from the historiographical tropes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which have emphasised the experience of those identified (and legally defined) as lunatics and the social, cultural, political, medical and institutional context of their treatment. A historical narrative structured around rights (to health and liberty) is now complicated by the rise of new organising categories such as 'costs', 'risks', 'needs' and 'values'. This paper, drawing on insights from a series of witness seminars attended by historians, clinicians and policymakers, proposes a programme of research to place modern mental health services in England and Wales in a richer historical context. Historians should recognise the fragmentation of the concepts of mental illness and mental health need, acknowledge the relationship between critiques of psychiatry and developments in other intellectual spheres, place the experience of the service user in the context of wider socio-economic and political change, understand the impacts of the social perception of 'risk' and of moral panic on mental health policy, relate the politics of mental health policy and resources to the general determinants of institutional change in British central and local government, and explore the sociological and institutional complexity of the evolving mental health professions and their relationships with each other and with their clients. While this is no small challenge, it is perhaps the only way to avoid the perpetuation of 'single-issue mythologies' in describing and accounting for change.
