K Weeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 212233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Weeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Weeks |
| SIGNATURE | WEEKS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4832-7646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Special section: Left Feminisms
Abolition of the family: The Most Infamous Feminist Proposal
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 revisits 1970s feminist family abolitionism and develops an argument for its contemporary relevance
The politics of precarity
La renta básica desde una perspectiva feminista postrabajo
Este artículo presenta una defensa de la renta básica frente a las recientes críticas de la izquierda en Estados Unidos, principalmente aquellas que sugieren que la renta básica desincentivaría la producción económica ligada al trabajo asalariado y promovería la ociosidad. A partir de una serie de conclusiones extraídas del movimiento por un salario en reconocimiento del trabajo doméstico (Wages for Housework) de los años 1970, se defiende la pro…
What Can Feminist Work Be: A Conversation with WSQ Authors Kathi Weeks and Heather Berg
What Can Feminist Work Be?: A Conversation with WSQ Authors Kathi Weeks and Heather Berg Samantha Pinto (bio), Kathi Weeks (bio), and Heather Berg (bio) One of the calling cards of WSQ is the way it creates rich conversations within subfields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Through its special issue format, WSQ gives us a window into intra- and interdisciplinary thinking and makes reading each issue an event in the field, a recalibrati…
Always Historicize
A discussion: Capitalist crisis and economic estrangement
Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive
842 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Kathi Weeks Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive This article assembles an archive for the future of Marxist feminist theory consisting of three texts: Shulamith Firestone’s iconic manifesto from 1970 The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Donna Haraway’s 1985 “Manifesto for Cyborgs,” and the Laboria Cuboniks collective ’s 2015 manifesto, “Xenofeminism: A Politics…
Anti/Postwork Feminist Politics and A Case for Basic Income
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 income as a coalitional, antiproductivist, antifamilial reform that can help to alleviate some of the ways that the current wage-and-family system miscounts our economic contributions and fails as…
Polityka feministyczna anty/postpracy a obrona dochodu podstawowego
Artykuł stanowi obronę bezwarunkowego dochodu podstawowego przed ostatnią krytyką ze strony lewicy. Wyciągając wnioski z wysuwanego w latach siedemdziesiątych dwudziestego wieku żądania płac za pracę domową, opowiadam się za powszechnym, godnym dochodem podstawowym. Przedstawiam go jako koalicyjną, antyproduktywistyczną, antyrodzinną reformę, która odpowiada na problemy stworzone przez obecny system pracy najemnej i rodziny: nieadekwatne szacowan…
Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
This essay draws on 1970s feminist critiques of the ideologies of love and romance to develop a critique of the popular advice literature that directs employees to find love and happiness at work. The author argues that, under heteropatriarchal capitalism, the ideology of romantic love is being harnessed not only to continue to assign domestic work to women, but to recruit all waged workers into a more intimate relationship with work
Introduction: The Politics of the Public Toilet
The VanishingDialectic: Shulamith Firestone and the Future of the Feminist 1970s
This essay explores the relation between the feminist present, its recent past, and its possible futures using Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970) as a point of reference. Rather than conceive 1970s feminism as either a dead relic of a superseded past or a living legacy, the analysis experiments with temporalities of feminist theory that might better account for both continuity and rupture, for our attractions and repulsions to diff…
The Problems with Work
The Critical Manifesto: Marx and Engels, Haraway, and Utopian Politics
The essay focuses on the manifesto as a utopian genre and presents the category of the critical manifesto as a way to understand some of its internal differences. The analysis centers on a comparison between a traditional example of the form, Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto, and a critical version that rethinks both the form itself and the content of its claims, namely, Haraway's “Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Moylan's concept of the critical…
Epilogue: A Life beyond Work
Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income
Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work
The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope
Mapping the Work Ethic
“Hours for What We Will”: Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours
Pedagogies of the Common
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 of political pedagogy and a shared commitment to the possibilities of immanent resistance
Constituting Feminist Subjects
Patterns of approximal wear in cheek teeth of a Romano‐British population
The approximal surfaces of premolars and molars of 376 adult British‐Romano skulls were examined for wear facets. The type of wear was designated as convex, concave, sigmoid, or flat, and the degree was categorised on a three‐point scale. Concave wear facets were more frequently seen in the older age groups, but the type of wear was similar on right and left sides. Taking all teeth together or as individual tooth types, concave wear was significa…
Abolition of the family: The Most Infamous Feminist Proposal
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 revisits 1970s feminist family abolitionism and develops an argument for its contemporary relevance
Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
This essay draws on 1970s feminist critiques of the ideologies of love and romance to develop a critique of the popular advice literature that directs employees to find love and happiness at work. The author argues that, under heteropatriarchal capitalism, the ideology of romantic love is being harnessed not only to continue to assign domestic work to women, but to recruit all waged workers into a more intimate relationship with work
The VanishingDialectic: Shulamith Firestone and the Future of the Feminist 1970s
This essay explores the relation between the feminist present, its recent past, and its possible futures using Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970) as a point of reference. Rather than conceive 1970s feminism as either a dead relic of a superseded past or a living legacy, the analysis experiments with temporalities of feminist theory that might better account for both continuity and rupture, for our attractions and repulsions to diff…
Patterns of approximal wear in cheek teeth of a Romano‐British population
The approximal surfaces of premolars and molars of 376 adult British‐Romano skulls were examined for wear facets. The type of wear was designated as convex, concave, sigmoid, or flat, and the degree was categorised on a three‐point scale. Concave wear facets were more frequently seen in the older age groups, but the type of wear was similar on right and left sides. Taking all teeth together or as individual tooth types, concave wear was significa…
The Problems with Work
The politics of precarity
Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive
842 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Kathi Weeks Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive This article assembles an archive for the future of Marxist feminist theory consisting of three texts: Shulamith Firestone’s iconic manifesto from 1970 The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Donna Haraway’s 1985 “Manifesto for Cyborgs,” and the Laboria Cuboniks collective ’s 2015 manifesto, “Xenofeminism: A Politics…
Patterns of approximal wear in cheek teeth of a Romano‐British population
The approximal surfaces of premolars and molars of 376 adult British‐Romano skulls were examined for wear facets. The type of wear was designated as convex, concave, sigmoid, or flat, and the degree was categorised on a three‐point scale. Concave wear facets were more frequently seen in the older age groups, but the type of wear was similar on right and left sides. Taking all teeth together or as individual tooth types, concave wear was significa…
Constituting Feminist Subjects
Pedagogies of the Common
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 of political pedagogy and a shared commitment to the possibilities of immanent resistance
Epilogue: A Life beyond Work
Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income
Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work
The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope
Mapping the Work Ethic
“Hours for What We Will”: Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours
The Critical Manifesto: Marx and Engels, Haraway, and Utopian Politics
The essay focuses on the manifesto as a utopian genre and presents the category of the critical manifesto as a way to understand some of its internal differences. The analysis centers on a comparison between a traditional example of the form, Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto, and a critical version that rethinks both the form itself and the content of its claims, namely, Haraway's “Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Moylan's concept of the critical…
The Problems with Work
The VanishingDialectic: Shulamith Firestone and the Future of the Feminist 1970s
This essay explores the relation between the feminist present, its recent past, and its possible futures using Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970) as a point of reference. Rather than conceive 1970s feminism as either a dead relic of a superseded past or a living legacy, the analysis experiments with temporalities of feminist theory that might better account for both continuity and rupture, for our attractions and repulsions to diff…
Introduction: The Politics of the Public Toilet
Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
This essay draws on 1970s feminist critiques of the ideologies of love and romance to develop a critique of the popular advice literature that directs employees to find love and happiness at work. The author argues that, under heteropatriarchal capitalism, the ideology of romantic love is being harnessed not only to continue to assign domestic work to women, but to recruit all waged workers into a more intimate relationship with work
Anti/Postwork Feminist Politics and A Case for Basic Income
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 income as a coalitional, antiproductivist, antifamilial reform that can help to alleviate some of the ways that the current wage-and-family system miscounts our economic contributions and fails as…
Polityka feministyczna anty/postpracy a obrona dochodu podstawowego
Artykuł stanowi obronę bezwarunkowego dochodu podstawowego przed ostatnią krytyką ze strony lewicy. Wyciągając wnioski z wysuwanego w latach siedemdziesiątych dwudziestego wieku żądania płac za pracę domową, opowiadam się za powszechnym, godnym dochodem podstawowym. Przedstawiam go jako koalicyjną, antyproduktywistyczną, antyrodzinną reformę, która odpowiada na problemy stworzone przez obecny system pracy najemnej i rodziny: nieadekwatne szacowan…
Always Historicize
A discussion: Capitalist crisis and economic estrangement
Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive
842 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Kathi Weeks Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive This article assembles an archive for the future of Marxist feminist theory consisting of three texts: Shulamith Firestone’s iconic manifesto from 1970 The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Donna Haraway’s 1985 “Manifesto for Cyborgs,” and the Laboria Cuboniks collective ’s 2015 manifesto, “Xenofeminism: A Politics…
The politics of precarity
La renta básica desde una perspectiva feminista postrabajo
Este artículo presenta una defensa de la renta básica frente a las recientes críticas de la izquierda en Estados Unidos, principalmente aquellas que sugieren que la renta básica desincentivaría la producción económica ligada al trabajo asalariado y promovería la ociosidad. A partir de una serie de conclusiones extraídas del movimiento por un salario en reconocimiento del trabajo doméstico (Wages for Housework) de los años 1970, se defiende la pro…
What Can Feminist Work Be: A Conversation with WSQ Authors Kathi Weeks and Heather Berg
What Can Feminist Work Be?: A Conversation with WSQ Authors Kathi Weeks and Heather Berg Samantha Pinto (bio), Kathi Weeks (bio), and Heather Berg (bio) One of the calling cards of WSQ is the way it creates rich conversations within subfields of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Through its special issue format, WSQ gives us a window into intra- and interdisciplinary thinking and makes reading each issue an event in the field, a recalibrati…
Abolition of the family: The Most Infamous Feminist Proposal
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 revisits 1970s feminist family abolitionism and develops an argument for its contemporary relevance
Special section: Left Feminisms
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