Working class fathers and daughters: Thinking about desire, identification, gender and education

About the Authors Helen Lucey is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath. She is a psychosocial researcher who draws on psychoanalysis and social theory to look at how internal and external worlds shape one another. In research with children, young people and adults, she explores individual and group relational identities in the context of the changing nature of social class, the production of gendered identities, educational success and failure, and sibling relationships. Aina Olsvold PhD is a senior clinical psychologist, trained in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has a private psychotherapy practice and she is a guest researcher at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. Her main research interests are psychosocial research methods, psychoanalytic theory, subjectivity and social categorization. In her PhD she explored children’s and their parent’s experiences of ADHD diagnosis and stimulant drug treatment. Helene Aarseth, Ph.D., is a researcher at Norwegian Social Research Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Her main research interests are family cultures, class and gender. Her work focuses on feminist social theory and psycho-social theories. She is the author of two books and several articles on changing masculinities, the everyday life of the late modern family and parenting and social class. Recent publications in English include ‘Enriching intimacy: the role of the emotional in the “resourcing” of middle-class children’ (with Kari Stefansen, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011), ‘Conflicts in the habitus. The Intergenerational Emotional Work of Becoming Modern’ and ‘Eros in the field? Bourdieu’s double account of socialized desire’(both forthcoming in The Sociological Review).