Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

by Kathi Weeks

Abolitionist Archives, Feminist Futures examines the works of Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway to build a case for the abolition of prison and family and the refusal of work.
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.

Genres: Feminism

288 pages, Hardcover

Published March 17, 2026

About the author

Kathi Weeks teaches in the Women's Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries and Constituting Feminist Subjects, and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader.

Reviews

[Sarah Jaffe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I aspire to the fierce clarity and generosity of Kathi Weeks, and this book is unsurprisingly amazing. And yet it is full of surprises.