Rozsika Parker

Rozsika Parker (27 December 1945 – 5 November 2010) was a British psychotherapist, art historian and writer and a feminist.[1]

Rozsika Parker
Born(1945-12-27)27 December 1945
London, United Kingdom
Died5 November 2010(2010-11-05) (aged 64)
NationalityBritish
EducationCourtauld Institute
Known forPainting
MovementPsychotherapy, Art History
Partner(s)Andrew Samuels

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 European art at the Courtauld Institute in London. in 1972 she joined the feminist magazine Spare Rib. She and Griselda Pollock then went on to found a feminist group, The Feminist Art History Collective. [1]

In the 1980s, Parker had two children with the Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels, a boy and a girl.[1]

Parker died in 2010 she was 64 and she had cancer.[1]

Legacy

In 2013, the Rozsika Parker Essay Prize was established by the British Journal of Psychotherapy.[2]

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
  1. Petrie, Ruthie (21 November 2010). "Rozsika Parker obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  2. "Rozsika Parker Prize". British Journal of Psychotherapy. Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1752-0118. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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