Chicas sueltas y perr@s sin correas. Amor, diplomacia y hospitalidad entre mujeres y canes en algunas prácticas artísticas contemporáneas

FLEISNER, PAULA

Biopolíticas no Século XXI

Editora Fundacao Fênix

Lugar: Porto Alegre; Año: 2022; p. 11 - 34

The association between female figures and dogs has been a constant in Western tradition since ancient Greece. Conceived by an ancient zootechnics for the assistance of humanity, dogs have had opposite roles according to a gender difference: on the one hand, a negative character, an insult to women (bitch, cagna, perra: several languages show the pejorative nature of this word); and on the other, in its masculine declination, the dog is the faithful, auxiliary and subordinate being that reinforces the masculinity of its owner. If humanist idealism proposes the transcendence of the human that requires the sacrifice of its irreducible animal nature to a symbolic game between masters and dogs, posthuman materialism points to a liberalization of the interspecies links between bodies transformed into ?available? bodies. On this occasion, I will analyze certain artistic practices that seek to untie the leash that ties dogs and women with the andro/anthropocentric order of things and explore the policies of mutual obligation, diplomacy and hospitality that compromise their relationships.