'Daddy Issues' is a self-less exploration of the role of the father in contemporary culture. I really liked the puncturing insights Katherine Angel makes regarding, not just the male gaze, but the father's. By including Donald Trump's comments about his daughter Ivanka – his inappropriate claims on her 'amazing' body and how if he wasn't her father he'd be dating her – Angel highlights the flippancy of the patriachy.

It feels like a book Daddy's (bad daddy's) should read, but. they won't. Instead it's a thoughtful book for thoughtful people. You'd have to put an advert in the middle of a Celtic game for my dad to maybe take account for his (he doesn't have any) issues. I guess that's the thing, Daddy Issues is a female thing. My brother never got told he had 'Daddy Issues,' it was me, my sister.

At the close of the essay Angel writes beautifully about the power of writing. Though the art of writing she is able to fully realise herself. Made even more impactful because the book is empty of her ego. We learn how the author cherishes the experience of writing as being solely her own, yet the book is illuminating a bigger question, one society should (would) like to understand more about: "Is it possible to get rid of the father, or is he forever internalised?" 71

A book to read now and again and again.

Short, interesting and somewhat elightening. The kind of book that you can agree with and helps you put names and give entity to ideas that may already be wandering in your head, and stories and background to underpin them. I will be rereading it in the following days to reinforce the key points.

Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel

Is a pop culture review.

This is the second book I have read by Angel and I must say I must learn that I don’t like her writing or insights. It is very much just taking pop culture films and books to prove a point. But instead of adding anything it’s just a film synopsis, with no really added value.

It may be good as a lecture or a commentary but as a book it’s lacking.

This book specifically was meant to be about fathers and the complex relationship with daughters. However, there was more talk about mothers and parents in general than fathers which was disappointing.

At one point I thought, okay so Angel is seeming to infer that the incestuous relationship between a father and daughter is the result of the mother not loving the daughter enough.

This book is fine for those that want a film review with passing insight of a couch buddy

Overnight, [new fathers] are transformed into heroic defenders of women’s rights—though it’s a defence that blurs into a defence of their daughter’s purity; it relies, in other words, on an identification with a predatory masculinity that a father knows but now disavows (12)

Since the de-contractualising of marriage, the question of ownership of the daughter has taken on a romantic and sexual hue. Marriage is no longer an exchange of property, but the exchange of a desired love object. (33)

I hate to be made into the mother whose maternal gaze is demanded, the gaze of mirroring and recognition. When I only exist as a mirror for someone else, I cannot go on looking. (49)