The book combines Marxist analysis with feminist and posthumanist methodology to analyse the relation between ‘societal dressage’ and ‘bodily animality’ that humans and animals share. Within this original theoretical framework, the book develops the concept of ‘dressaged animality’ as a mode of critique to analyse the social and political function of a selection of interdisciplinary forms of ‘contemporary performances’ from the 1960s.

This book is included in DOAB.