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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Introduction. Periodizing the Archive 1 1. Structural Pedagogies 29 2. The Vanishing Dialectic: Shulamith Firestone and the Future of the Feminist 1970s 69 3. Systems and Standpoints in and Beyond Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs" 93 4. Archiving the Future 121 5. Angela Y. Davis and Prison Abolitionism as Politics and Method 143 6. The Abolition of the Family: The Most Infamous Feminist Proposal 171 7. Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the Ideologies of Work 191 8. The Lumpenproletariat and Marxist Feminist Political Theory 215 Acknowledgments 235 Notes 237 References 247 Index
"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