Rozsika Parker

Rozsika Parker (27 December 1945 – 5 November 2010) was a British psychotherapist, art historian and writer and a feminist.

Biography Parker was born in London and spent her early years in Oxford, studying at Wychwood School.

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.

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)