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Kathi Weeks

Kathi Weeks

Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
kweeks@duke.edu
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708-0760
114B East Duke, Durham, NC 27708

Selected 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

A discussion: Capitalist crisis and economic estrangement

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · August 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Always Historicize!

Journal Article New Political Science · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive

Journal Article Feminist Studies · 2021 Full text Cite

Anti/postwork feminist politics and a case for basic income

Journal Article TripleC · June 1, 2020 This article presents a defence of the demand for a guaranteed basic income against recent Left critiques. Drawing on a series of lessons from the 1970s-era demand for Wages for Housework, I argue in favour of a demand for a liveable and universal basic in ... Full text Cite

Introduction: The Politics of the Public Toilet

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · October 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Introduction

Chapter · October 9, 2014 Cite

Reencountering Marxist Feminism

Chapter · August 12, 2014 In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, and looks back at the political climate in which the book was written. ... Cite

“Wanting Otherwise” and “Utopian Time,” roundtable contributions to the afterword

Other Angelika Bammer, Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s, 2nd Edition · 2014 Cite

Imagining Non-Work

Other Social Text Periscope · 2013 Cite

Pedagogies of the Common

Journal Article Rethinking Marxism · September 2009 Cite

Life within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics

Journal Article Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization · February 2007 (Article reprinted, Danish translation, Nebulabooks, 47-77, 2014.) (Article reprinted, German translation, Schattenblick, 2011.) (Article reprinted, German translation, Grundrisse, issue 37, spring 2011.) (Arti ... Cite

The Jameson Reader

Book · July 13, 2000 This book brings together key essays and excerpts from the broad spectrum of Frederic Jameson's writings, providing an accessible introduction to the intricacies of his thought and uncovering new and exciting aspects of his work. ... Cite

A Brief Bibliography of Critical Feminist Responses to Postmodernism

Other The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy · 1992 Cite