Drucilla K. Barker
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. Barker described herself as a "A Marxist feminist economist whose research interests are globalization, feminist political economy, and economic anthropology." Early life Drucilla K. Barker was born in Akron, Ohio on March 12, 1949. Barker's father died during the Korean War when she was a little over one year old. Her mother remarried shortly thereafter and the family moved to Norfolk, Virginia. Her mother's interest in acting would take her family to California, where they lived during the 1950s and 1960s. Her mother and step-father would divorce, which resulted in her mother going back to school to obtain a Masters in Psychology and then enter into the PhD program in Psychology at the University of Southern California. Barker's mother died when she was 18. She credits her mother obtaining the ABD but not living to get the PhD as an inspiration for her to go into higher education. Being orphaned at age 18, Barker would spend several years as