Kathi Weeks is an American scholar, Marxist feminist and anti-work theorist. She is best known for The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries, published in 2011 by Duke University Press.[1][2]
Kathi Weeks | |
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| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Known for | The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (2011) |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Marxist feminism Anti-work Autonomism |
| Institutions | Duke University |
Main interests | Feminist theory · Political theory · Critique of work · Post-work society · subjectivity · capitalism · temporality · universal basic income |
Biography
editShe holds a PhD from the University of Washington, and is currently a professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. There, she was from 2012 to 2015 the Director of Graduate Studies in Women, and in 2018 the Director of Graduate Studies in the Program In Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies.[3]
In 1998 she published Constituting Feminist Subjects,[4][5] and in 2000 she co-edited with Michael Hardt the volume The Jameson Reader, on cultural theorist Fredric Jameson. She gained prominence with the publication in 2011 of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries.[6] The book uses Marxist social reproduction theory, including Wages for Housework and autonomist literature, to question that work is necessarily a social good.[7][8][9][10] She argues in favor of a post-work society where people do not see their creativity or political agency bound by employment relations. This includes a defense of a universal basic income on Marxist feminist grounds.[11][12][13]
Books
editAs author
edit- Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell University Press, 1998). Re-published in 2018 by Verso Books.
- The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2011).
As editor
edit- The Jameson Reader (with Michael Hardt) (Blackwell, 2000).
References
edit- ^ Gira Grant, Melissa (2021-01-21). "The Beginning of the End of Meaningless Work". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Cole, Alyson; Marasco, Robyn (2021-10-01). "Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Kathi Weeks about the Politics of Work and the Work of Political Theory". Polity. 53 (4): 743–752. doi:10.1086/716085. ISSN 0032-3497. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Kathi Weeks | Scholars@Duke profile". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Mann, Patricia S. (2001). "Kathi Weeks, Constituting Feminist Subjects. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1998". Hypatia. 16 (2): 111–116. doi:10.1017/S0887536700011806. ISSN 0887-5367. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Curtis, Kimberley (2001). "Constituting Feminist Subjects. By Kathi Weeks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 196p. 13.95 paper". American Political Science Review. 95 (1): 207–208. doi:10.1017/S0003055401302010. ISSN 1537-5943. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Kathi Weeks. Political Science". politicalscience.stanford.edu. 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "The Problem with Work. Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries". Duke University Press.
- ^ Wingrove, Elizabeth (2015). "Materialisms". In Disch, Lisa; Hawkesworth, Mary (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. Oxford University Press. pp. 454–472. ISBN 9780190249663.
- ^ Grant, Judith (2013-05-01). "The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries". Contemporary Political Theory. 12 (2): e5–e7. doi:10.1057/cpt.2012.6. ISSN 1476-9336. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Guzmán Bastida, Álvaro (2016). ""Work is not the essence of what it means to be human"". ctxt.es. Contexto y Acción. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks". Critical Legal Thinking. 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ "Kathi Weeks. Jackman Humanities Institute". www.humanities.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ Curcio, Anna (2015-10-31). "Social Reproduction, Neoliberal Crisis, and the Problem with Work: A Conversation with Kathi Weeks". Viewpoint Magazine. Retrieved 2023-12-24.