Fatherhood, UK political culture and the new politics

About the Author Dr. Candida Yates is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is a Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council research network, Media and the Inner World (www.miwnet.org). She is Co-editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics (www.freeassociations.org.uk); an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; and an Editor of the Karnac Book Series: Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture. She also sits on the committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival organised by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. She has published widely on the themes of masculinity, emotion, politics and popular culture. Her publications include: Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), Culture and The Unconscious (Co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives (Co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).