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

[1] 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.

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

[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.