Kathi Weeks

Professor Emeritus of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies · 2026 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Published December 1, 2025

Books for When There’s a Chill in the Air

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 Scholarly Works

Special section: Left Feminisms

Journal article Feminist Theory · April 1, 2025 Full text Cite

Envisioning the Post-Work World: A Roundtable Conversation*

Book section · January 1, 2024 This conversation among four leading theorists of post-work considers some of the main issues of a post-work agenda today: what the term “post-work” denotes; the values of a post-work agenda; whether such an agenda overturns gendered forms of work; the rea ... Full text Cite

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

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Education

University of Washington · 1992 Ph.D.

University of Washington · 1984 M.A.

Western Washington University · 1981 B.A.