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 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.[1] Barker described herself as a "A Marxist feminist economist whose research interests are globalization, feminist political economy, and economic anthropology.[2]"