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Kathi Weeks

Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708-0760
114B East Duke, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2016 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published April 20, 2017
Trinity College Honors Faculty, Staff for Teaching, Advising and Leadership
Published May 1, 2014
Kathi Weeks: Can we have more jobs and less work?

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Recent Publications


Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal

Journal Article Feminist Theory · August 1, 2023 In the 1970s, what Marx and Engels satirised as the most ‘infamous proposal of the communists’, the abolition of the family, becomes the most scandalous demand of feminists. Ever since then, numerous US feminists have tried to walk it back. This article re ... Full text Cite

The politics of precarity

Journal Article Contemporary Political Theory · March 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Basic income from a feminist postwork perspective

Journal Article Politica y Sociedad · January 1, 2022 This article presents a defence of the demand for a basic income against recent critiques from within the Left. Drawing on a series of lessons from the 1970s-era demand for Wages for Housework, it argues in favour of a universal basic income as a coalition ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Washington · 1992 Ph.D.
University of Washington · 1984 M.A.
Western Washington University · 1981 B.A.