Drucilla Barker is the Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Professor of Women's and Gender 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.
Articles
As the World Turns: Globalization, Consumption, and the Feminization of Work (with Susan F. Feiner), Rethinking Marxism (2010)
Affect, Race, and Class: An Interpretive Reading of Caring Labor (with Susan F. Feiner), Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (2009)
The Dickensian World of Micro-Finance: Grameen May Not Be So Good for Women After All (with Susan F. Feiner), Women's Review of Books (2007)
Microcredit and Women's Poverty: Granting This Year's Nobel Peace Prize to Microcredit Guru Muhammad Yunus Affirms Neoliberalism (with Susan F. Feiner), Dollars and Sense (2006)
Beyond Women and Economics: Rereading "Women's Work", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2005)
Books
Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory and Policy, Faculty Publications (2005)
Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization (with Susan F. Feiner), Faculty Publications (2004)
Contributions to Books
Introduction to Volume II: Households, Labor, and Paid Work, Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts (2009)
Introduction to Volume III: Engendering Economic Development and Economic Well-Being, Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts (2009)
A Seat at the Table: Feminist Economics Negotiate Development, Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory and Policy (2005)
Feminist Economics and the World Bank: An Introduction (with Edith Kuiper), Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory and Policy (2005)
Book Reviews
Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Feminist Economics (2009)
A review of Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Gender, Caring, and Money (with Susan F. Feiner), Women's Review of Books (2008)
A review of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, by Riane...
Fragments of Development, by Suzanne Bergeron and A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Productive, Reproductive, and Virtual Economies, by V. Spike Peterson, Faculty Publications (2006)
A review of Fragments of Development, by Suzanne Bergeron, and A Critical Rewriting of Global...
Living Wages, Equal Wage: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States, by Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power, Eastern Economic Journal (2005)
A review of Living Wages, Equal Wage: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United...
Reorienting Economics, by Tony Lawson, Feminist Economics (2005)
A review of Reorienting Economics, by Tony Lawson