Genealogy of Obedience, : Reading North American Pet Dog Training Literature, 1850's-2000's.

• Superior document: Human-animal studies ; Volume 20
• Author: Włodarczyk, Justyna
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Human-Animal Studies 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages).

In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Włodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Włodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog training are entangled in bigger cultural discourses; with a particular focus on how animal training has served as a field for playing out anxieties related to race, class and gender in North America. By applying a Foucauldian genealogical perspective, the book shows how changes in training methods correlate with shifts in dominant regimes of power. It traces the rise and fall of obedience as a category for conceptualizing relationships with dogs.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Canine-Human Intensifications, Periodizing Dog Training in the US Since the 1850's / Justyna Włodarczyk -- The Gentle Way in Punishment: Transcending Animality/Performing Animality in Early US Pet Dog Training Manuals, 1850–1900 / Justyna Włodarczyk -- Hunting Dog Manuals: The Pointer as a Work of Art in the Age of Biopolitical Reproduction, 1845–1909 / Justyna Włodarczyk -- Culture of Instinct: Emergence of the Disciplinary Regime, 1910–1946 / Justyna Włodarczyk -- The Rise and Fall of Obedience: From Helen Whitehouse Walker to the Dawn of Positive Training, 1933–1984 / Justyna Włodarczyk -- Power without Coercion: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality, from Discipline to Self-Control, 1984–2000's / Justyna Włodarczyk -- Countermodernity: Resistance to the Positive Training Revolution, 1980's–2000's / Justyna Włodarczyk -- Be More Dog: Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics / Justyna Włodarczyk -- Conclusion: The Death of Obedience / Justyna Włodarczyk.