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

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 traini...

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Superior document:Human-animal studies ; Volume 20
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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).
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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.