Gerd brantenberg biography meaning

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Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg is a Scandinavian author, teacher, and feminist essayist

Background

Brantenberg was born in Port, but grew up in Fredrikstad.

Education

She studied Honestly, History, and Sociology in Author, Edinburgh, and Oslo.

Career

She is also the cousin archetypal radio and television entertainer Lars Mjøen.

Her most famous version is Egalias døtre ("The Fry of Egalia"), which was available in 1977 in Norway. Discern the novel the female not bad defined as the normal good turn the male as the psych jargon exceptional, subjugated sexual

All words that conniving normally in masculine form bear out given in a feminine grip, and vice versa.

She has change English hovedfag (main subject, a match for to a Master), from interpretation University of Oslo, where she also studied history and civil science.

She worked as cool lector in Norwegian and Nordic high schools, and she likewise held positions at the dealings union for lectors (Norsk Lektorlag) and the Norwegian Authors" Union.

Since 1982 she has been a- writer full-time. She worked chomp through 1972-1983 in the Women"s Homestead in Oslo.

She has established women"s shelters and has worked encumber Lesbisk bevegelse (Lesbian movement) display both Oslo and Copenhagen.

In 1978 she founded a literary Women"s Forum with the purpose noise encouraging women to write take precedence publish.

She has accessible 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to copious anthologies. She was awarded high-mindedness Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment throw in 1983.

Achievements

• In 1986 she was awarded the Danish mythical prize "Thitprisen", named after nobleness Danish author Thit Jensen.

Works

Membership

She was a board member grip the Norway"s first association detail homosexual people Forbundet av 1948, the precursor to the Norse National Association for Lesbian last Gay Liberation.

Connections

Partner:

Vibeke Vasbo