Drucilla K Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 166520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Drucilla K Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Drucilla K |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Speaking Truth to Power
This article compares the experiences of resistance and accommodation by the University of South Carolina (USC) and Boğaziçi University to the imposition of a right-wing head of university by government fiat. I begin with a description of the USC case and examine one scholarly response. I offer a critique of that response in terms of the problematics about the gendered subject when involving the principles of free speech and the importance of spe…
Liberating Economics, Second Edition
In this brand-new critical analysis of economics, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner provide a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being to reveal the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today. With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics examines recent trends in inequality, global indebtedness, crises of care, labor precarity, a…
A Feminist Economist Joins the Conversation
Servaas Storm is correct in his assertion that currently macroeconomics needs fixing, and in his analyses, he shows that a renewed reliance on dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models will only make matters worse. I argue that in addition they are unable to address the crises of care and social reproduction, because the macroeconomic aspects of these crises are tied to the problems of unemployment, poverty, and inequality. DSGE model…
The Real Wolves of Wall Street
This article looks debt and austerity as a contemporary form of primitive accumulation. Marx saw that the transition from feudalism to capitalism was accomplished not only by enclosures and the enslavement of peoples of the Americas and Africa; it required an ensemble of ideas and stories that justified these actions. Today’s expropriation by debt also requires public discourses and cultural productions that work in concert with the coercive mech…
Ethics and Social Justice
Economics, economic anthropology, and debt
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam ChomskyMiranda Joseph’s monograph, Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism, contributes to an emerging bod
Unstable Feminisms
This article is a brief reflection after the Rethinking Marxism conference book session on Class Struggle on the Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household, edited by Graham Cassano (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Domestic labor has long been a major concern for feminist scholars seeking to understand both the causes of women's subordination and the collective well-being of industrialized societies. The importance of this essay coll…
Querying the Paradox of Caring Labor
Caring labor has long been considered "women's work" in economics. It is a problematic concept because its affective dimension means that it does not fit neatly into the category of work, and dominant gender ideology constructs it as a "labor of love." The problem, according to feminist economists, is that the nature of care and the dependency of those receiving care imply that caregivers must genuinely care about those to whom their well-being i…
As the World Turns
It is widely argued that global imbalances are the cause of the financial crisis. Political imbalance (the United States as dominant world force) mirrors economic imbalance (the debt-financed consumption sprees of the past three decades). There is, however, a missing (third) term—gender, which is constitutive of the economy both discursively and materially. Gender, in this sense, is a governing code that feminizes women as well as economically, r…
Beyond Women and Economics
Liberating Economics
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality -- in economic processes shaping the home…
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Critical Realism
Tony Lawson (1999) argues that critical realism will facilitate revelatory and emancipatory projects in feminist economics. The strength of Lawson's argument lies in its rejection of social atomism and methodological individualism. Societies are best understood as structurally connected systems rather than as atomistic aggregates. Its weakness lies in its reliance on a humanist conception of human agency, a conception that is increasingly questio…
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive space for reconstructing the dualisms embedded in the modem worldview. It suggests that an understanding of knowledge systems other than the modem one can aid us in constructing epistemologies that result in …
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive space for reconstructing the dualisms embedded in the modem worldview. It suggests that an understanding of knowledge systems other than the modem one can aid us in constructing epistemologies that result in …
Economists, social reformers, and prophets
This article examines the concept of Pareto optimality, bringing to light some of its implicit assumptions about the nature of human agency, work, and gender. It explores the androcentric character of the economic agent and the gendered nature of neoclassical models in relation to the historical development of the concept of economic efficiency during the late 1930s. The thrust toward the development of Pareto optimality as a scientific criterion…
Beyond Women and Economics
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive space for reconstructing the dualisms embedded in the modem worldview. It suggests that an understanding of knowledge systems other than the modem one can aid us in constructing epistemologies that result in …
Querying the Paradox of Caring Labor
Caring labor has long been considered "women's work" in economics. It is a problematic concept because its affective dimension means that it does not fit neatly into the category of work, and dominant gender ideology constructs it as a "labor of love." The problem, according to feminist economists, is that the nature of care and the dependency of those receiving care imply that caregivers must genuinely care about those to whom their well-being i…
As the World Turns
It is widely argued that global imbalances are the cause of the financial crisis. Political imbalance (the United States as dominant world force) mirrors economic imbalance (the debt-financed consumption sprees of the past three decades). There is, however, a missing (third) term—gender, which is constitutive of the economy both discursively and materially. Gender, in this sense, is a governing code that feminizes women as well as economically, r…
Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Critical Realism
Tony Lawson (1999) argues that critical realism will facilitate revelatory and emancipatory projects in feminist economics. The strength of Lawson's argument lies in its rejection of social atomism and methodological individualism. Societies are best understood as structurally connected systems rather than as atomistic aggregates. Its weakness lies in its reliance on a humanist conception of human agency, a conception that is increasingly questio…
Economics, economic anthropology, and debt
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam ChomskyMiranda Joseph’s monograph, Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism, contributes to an emerging bod
Unstable Feminisms
This article is a brief reflection after the Rethinking Marxism conference book session on Class Struggle on the Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household, edited by Graham Cassano (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Domestic labor has long been a major concern for feminist scholars seeking to understand both the causes of women's subordination and the collective well-being of industrialized societies. The importance of this essay coll…
Economists, social reformers, and prophets
This article examines the concept of Pareto optimality, bringing to light some of its implicit assumptions about the nature of human agency, work, and gender. It explores the androcentric character of the economic agent and the gendered nature of neoclassical models in relation to the historical development of the concept of economic efficiency during the late 1930s. The thrust toward the development of Pareto optimality as a scientific criterion…
Economists, social reformers, and prophets
This article examines the concept of Pareto optimality, bringing to light some of its implicit assumptions about the nature of human agency, work, and gender. It explores the androcentric character of the economic agent and the gendered nature of neoclassical models in relation to the historical development of the concept of economic efficiency during the late 1930s. The thrust toward the development of Pareto optimality as a scientific criterion…
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive space for reconstructing the dualisms embedded in the modem worldview. It suggests that an understanding of knowledge systems other than the modem one can aid us in constructing epistemologies that result in …
Dualisms, Discourse, and Development
This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive space for reconstructing the dualisms embedded in the modem worldview. It suggests that an understanding of knowledge systems other than the modem one can aid us in constructing epistemologies that result in …
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Critical Realism
Tony Lawson (1999) argues that critical realism will facilitate revelatory and emancipatory projects in feminist economics. The strength of Lawson's argument lies in its rejection of social atomism and methodological individualism. Societies are best understood as structurally connected systems rather than as atomistic aggregates. Its weakness lies in its reliance on a humanist conception of human agency, a conception that is increasingly questio…
Liberating Economics
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality -- in economic processes shaping the home…
Beyond Women and Economics
As the World Turns
It is widely argued that global imbalances are the cause of the financial crisis. Political imbalance (the United States as dominant world force) mirrors economic imbalance (the debt-financed consumption sprees of the past three decades). There is, however, a missing (third) term—gender, which is constitutive of the economy both discursively and materially. Gender, in this sense, is a governing code that feminizes women as well as economically, r…
Querying the Paradox of Caring Labor
Caring labor has long been considered "women's work" in economics. It is a problematic concept because its affective dimension means that it does not fit neatly into the category of work, and dominant gender ideology constructs it as a "labor of love." The problem, according to feminist economists, is that the nature of care and the dependency of those receiving care imply that caregivers must genuinely care about those to whom their well-being i…
Unstable Feminisms
This article is a brief reflection after the Rethinking Marxism conference book session on Class Struggle on the Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household, edited by Graham Cassano (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Domestic labor has long been a major concern for feminist scholars seeking to understand both the causes of women's subordination and the collective well-being of industrialized societies. The importance of this essay coll…
Ethics and Social Justice
Economics, economic anthropology, and debt
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam ChomskyMiranda Joseph’s monograph, Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism, contributes to an emerging bod
The Real Wolves of Wall Street
This article looks debt and austerity as a contemporary form of primitive accumulation. Marx saw that the transition from feudalism to capitalism was accomplished not only by enclosures and the enslavement of peoples of the Americas and Africa; it required an ensemble of ideas and stories that justified these actions. Today’s expropriation by debt also requires public discourses and cultural productions that work in concert with the coercive mech…
Liberating Economics, Second Edition
In this brand-new critical analysis of economics, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner provide a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being to reveal the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today. With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics examines recent trends in inequality, global indebtedness, crises of care, labor precarity, a…
A Feminist Economist Joins the Conversation
Servaas Storm is correct in his assertion that currently macroeconomics needs fixing, and in his analyses, he shows that a renewed reliance on dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models will only make matters worse. I argue that in addition they are unable to address the crises of care and social reproduction, because the macroeconomic aspects of these crises are tied to the problems of unemployment, poverty, and inequality. DSGE model…
Speaking Truth to Power
This article compares the experiences of resistance and accommodation by the University of South Carolina (USC) and Boğaziçi University to the imposition of a right-wing head of university by government fiat. I begin with a description of the USC case and examine one scholarly response. I offer a critique of that response in terms of the problematics about the gendered subject when involving the principles of free speech and the importance of spe…
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