Overview

Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures takes up the work of three iconic feminist thinkers – Angela Y. Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway – to ask how each author’s vision of work, the family, and the carceral state can expand contemporary feminism’s ability to structurally analyze social problems. Kathi Weeks examines the archive of this unexpected collection of Marxist feminists whose works are united by their abolitionist approaches, arguing that feminism can gain a broader constituency by taking up anti-capitalist critique and praxis. Across the book’s chapters, Weeks recontextualizes well-known feminist texts in a new and original light, bringing their insight from the past into the present and future of abolitionist politics.

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""Teeming with lumpenproletarians, communist cyborgs, child-liberationists, and sex workers against work, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures braids together the living strands of revolutionary feminist thought and struggle of many decades--abolishing gender, prison, the family, police, and work--into a lasso of the imagination, big enough to overcome the present state of things. For my money, Kathi Weeks is quite simply the most important theorist of our age.""--Sophie Lewis, author of, Enemy Feminisms

“Teeming with lumpenproletarians, communist cyborgs, child-liberationists, and sex workers against work, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures braids together the living strands of revolutionary feminist thought and struggle of many decades – abolishing gender, prison, the family, police, and work – into a lasso of the imagination, big enough to overcome the present state of things. For my money, Kathi Weeks is quite simply the most important theorist of our age.”—Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms

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Kathi Weeks is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University and the author of The Problem with Work, published by Duke University Press, and Constituting Feminist Subjects.

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