Drucilla K. Barker
Drucilla K. Barker | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 12, 1949 Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | January 12, 2023 (aged 73) Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Other names | Drue Barker |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupations | Professor of Anthropology & Women's and Gender Studies |
| Known for | Feminist Economy |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD, University of Illinois (1988) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Sub-discipline | Feminist Economics |
| Institutions | University of South Carolina |
| Notable works | Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization |
Drucilla K. Barker (March 12, 1949 – January 12, 2023) was an American feminist economist and scholar of labor. At the time of her death, Barker was Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Barker described herself as a "Marxist feminist economist whose research interests are globalization, feminist political economy, and economic anthropology".