Rozsika Parker
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Rozsika Parker (27 December 1945 – 5 November 2010) was a British psychotherapist, art historian and writer and a feminist.[1]
Biography
Parker was born in London and spent her early years in Oxford, studying at Wychwood School.[1]
Between the years 1966–1969, Parker studied for a degree in the history of
In the 1980s, Parker had two children with the Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels, a boy and a girl.[1]
Parker died in 2010 at age 64 of cancer.[1]
Legacy
In 2013, the Rozsika Parker Essay Prize was established by the British Journal of Psychotherapy.[2]
Parker's contention that embroidery was a way to educate women and a weapon for resistance helped develop computational fiber arts as Anastasia Salter notes in her essay, Re:traced Threads: Generating Feminist Textile Art with Tracery.[3]
Books
- Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, with Griselda Pollock (1981)
- The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (1984)
- Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement 1970–1985 (1987)
- The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (1989)
- Torn in Two: Experience of Maternal Ambivalence (1995)
- Mother Love, Mother Hate: The Power of Maternal Ambivalence (1996)
- The Anxious Gardener (2006)
References
- ^ a b c d e Petrie, Ruthie (21 November 2010). "Rozsika Parker obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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External links
- Melissa Benn, "Deep maternal alienation", The Guardian, 28 October 2006
- "In Memoriam: Rozsika Parker, Feminist Art Historian and activist"
- Interview with Griselda Pollock about Rosie Parker, Last Word, BBC Radio 4, 3 December 2012.
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