Professor of Women's Studies

Drucilla Barker is the Director of the Women's Studies Program and Professor of Women's Studies. Her tenure is in the Department of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois in 1988, and her B.A. in philosophy from Sonoma State University in 1980.

Dr. Barker's co-authored book with Susan F. Feiner, Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, University of Michigan Press 2004, earned distinction as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2005. She has co-edited two anthologies with Dr. Edith Kuiper, Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Routledge, 2003, and Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory, and Policy, Routledge 2006. Her published articles, ranging from explorations of the gendered nature of economic efficiency to postmodern explorations of social science methodologies, have been published in Feminist Economics, Signs, and Hypatia. She is a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics.

SELECTED RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

Routledge Major Work: Feminist Economics (Critical Concepts in Economics and Business), Drucilla K. Barker, editor, forthcoming from Routledge.

The Political Economy of Families, Work, and Globalization: Feminist Perspectives, Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F. Feiner, editors, forthcoming from Routledge.

Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory and Policy, Edith Kuiper and Drucilla K. Barker, editors, Routledge, 2006.

Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F. Feiner University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper, editors, Routledge, 2003.

"Beyond Women and Economics: Rereading Women's Work," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 30 No. 4, Summer 2005.

"Rethinking Methodology," Research in the History of Political Economy and Methodology vol. 21A, 2003.

"Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Tony Lawson and Critical Realism," Feminist Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 103 -108.

"Dualisms, Discourse, and Development," Hypatia, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp 83-94, reprinted in Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World. Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding, editors, 2000, Indiana University Press.

"Economists, Social Reformers and Prophets: A Feminist Critique of Economic Efficiency," Feminist Economics, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 26-39.


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