Drucilla K. Barker

Drucilla K. Barker
Drue Barker in 2021
Born	Akron, OH
Died	Columbia, SC
Nationality	American
Other names	Dru Barker
Citizenship	United States
Occupation(s)	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]"