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Kathi Weeks

Kathi Weeks

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

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Special section: Left Feminisms

Journal article Feminist Theory · April 1, 2025 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

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 · January 1, 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

Pedagogies of the common

Journal article Rethinking Marxism · July 1, 2010 This response to Ken Surin's "On Producing (the Concept of) Solidarity" and S. Charusheela's "Engendering Feudalism: Modes of Production Revisited" explores some points of intersection between the two papers, including a comparable investment in the work o ... Full text 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