Kathi Weeks | Scholars@Duke

Kathi Weeks
Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies

Current Appointments & Affiliations

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

Contact Information

114B East Duke, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708-0760
kweeks@duke.edu (919) 684-5840

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Washington 1992
- M.A., University of Washington 1984
- B.A., Western Washington University 1981
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Program In Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2016
- Director of Graduate Studies in Women, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2015
Recognition
In the News
- APR 20, 2017
  
  Trinity College Honors Faculty, Staff for Teaching, Advising and Leadership
- MAY 1, 2014 In These Times
  
  Kathi Weeks: Can we have more jobs and less work?
Expertise
Subject Headings
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Weeks, K. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. Duke University Press, 2011.
  - Jameson, Fredric. The Jameson Reader. Edited by Fredric Hardt, M and K. Weeks. Blackwell Publishing, 2000.
  - Weeks, K. Constituting Feminist Subjects. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1998.
- Academic Articles
  - Schaap, A., K. Weeks, B. Maiguascha, E. Barvosa, L. Bassel, and P. Apostolidis. “The politics of precarity.” Contemporary Political Theory 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 142–73. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-020-00435-z.
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  - Weeks, K. “Basic income from a feminist postwork perspective.” Politica Y Sociedad 59, no. 2 (January 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.5209/poso.78753.
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  - Cole, A., and R. Marasco. “Ask a political scientist: A conversation with kathi weeks about the politics of work and the work of political theory.” Polity 53, no. 4 (October 1, 2021): 743–52. https://doi.org/10.1086/716085.
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  - Weeks, K. “A discussion: Capitalist crisis and economic estrangement.” Cultural Dynamics 33, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 253–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740211014339.
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  - Weeks, K. “Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal.” Feminist Theory, January 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211015841.
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  - Weeks, K. “Always Historicize!.” New Political Science 43, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 235–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2021.1925838.
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  - Weeks, Kathi. “Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive.” Feminist Studies 47, no. 3 (2021): 842–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2021.0039.
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  - Weeks, K. “Anti/postwork feminist politics and a case for basic income.” Triplec 18, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 575–94. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1174.
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  - Weeks, Kathi. “Introduction: The Politics of the Public Toilet.” South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 744–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3656136.
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  - Weeks, K. “The Vanishing Dialectic: Shulamith Firestone and the Future of the Feminist 1970s (Accepted).” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2015.
  - Weeks, K. “The Critical Manifesto: Marx-Engels, Haraway, and Utopian Politics.” Utopian Studies 24 (2013): 216–31.
  - Weeks, K. “Pedagogies of the Common.” Rethinking Marxism 22 (September 2009): 458–62.
  - Weeks, Kathi. “"Hours for What We Will": Work, Family, and the Movement for Shorter Hours.” Feminist Studies 35, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 101–27.
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  - Weeks, K. “Life within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics.” Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization 7 (February 2007): 233–49.
  - Weeks, K. “Review of At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex, and Equality by Drucilla Cornell and Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition by Nancy Fraser.” Signs 27 (2000): 1173–76.
- Book Sections
  - Jazwinski, S. M., and A. I. Yashin. “Introduction,” 40:vii–xii, 2014.
  - Weeks, K. “Reencountering Marxist Feminism.” In Women’s Oppression Today, edited by Michele Barrett and M. Barrett, ix–xix. Verso Books, 2014.
  - Weeks, K. “Timely and Untimely Utopianism (In preparation).” In Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination, 248–50. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014.
  - Weeks, K. “Timely and Untimely Utopianism (In preparation).” In Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination, 248–50. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014.
  - Weeks, K. “The Refusal of Work as Demand and Perspective.” In Resistance in Practice: The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, edited by T. Murphy and A. -. K. Mustapha, 109–35. Pluto, 2005.
  - Weeks, K. “'Labor, Standpoints, and Feminist Subjects,' Selection from Constituting Feminist Subjects.” In The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader, edited by Sandra Harding. 181-193. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  - Weeks, K. “Subject for a Feminist Standpoint.” In Marxism Beyond Marxism, edited by S. Makdisi, C. Casarino, and R. Karl. New York: Routledge, 1996.
  - Weeks, K. “Feminist Standpoint Theories and the Return of Labor.” In Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order, edited by A. Callari, C. Biewener, and S. Cullenberg. New York: Guilford Publications, 1995.
- Other Articles
  - Weeks, K. ““Wanting Otherwise” and “Utopian Time,” roundtable contributions to the afterword (In preparation).” Angelika Bammer, Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014.
  - Weeks, K. “Imagining Non-Work.” Social Text Periscope, 2013.
  - Weeks, K. “A Brief Bibliography of Critical Feminist Responses to Postmodernism.” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 1992.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses

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Education, Training, & Certifications

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In the News

Subject Headings

Selected Publications

Books

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