"Abolitionist Archives presents a feminist political agenda focused on prison abolition, family abolition, and anti/post-work refusal together with a methodological defense of the kind of scaled-up feminist theories that can address those systemic structural phenomena. Focusing on a small archive of US Marxist feminist theory consisting of two texts, Shulamith Firestones Dialectic of Sex and Donna Haraways "Manifesto for Cyborgs," and one project, Angela Y. Daviss prison abolitionist writing from 1971 to the present, Kathi Weeks concentrates on the texts contributions to that political agenda and also to theorizing at the level of structured social relations and collective political activity that it requires. The analyses are anchored in a three-part periodization scheme, beginning with the scaling-up of feminist theory and practice during the long 1970s, followed by the turns to the subject and ethics "around 1990," with Abolitionist Archives situated in a third and present period characterized by a renewed commitment to scaling-up political thought and practice to the level of systemic social problems and planetary crises"-- Provided by publisher.