The Danish Center for Research on Women and Gender (KVINFO) is a Danish information center about women's issues. It primarily aims to provide the general public with information about the results of women's studies and gender research undertaken in Denmark and internationally.
Beatrice Halsaa is a Norwegian political scientist,gender studies expert and feminist. She was appointed as Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Oslo in 2003,the second person to hold a chair in that discipline at the University of Oslo. She was leader of the EU research project "Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe:The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements," which was a cooperation of 15 research institutions in ten countries. Her fields of expertise are gender equality,women's movements,feminist theory,and multiculturalism.
Elna Munch née Sarauw was a Danish feminist and politician,. She was the co-founder of the Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret or LKV (1907),the more radical of the two main Danish suffrage movements,and alongside Johanne Rambusch its leading member.
Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir is an Icelandic political scientist and gender studies academic. She is Professor Emerita at the Center for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University and co-director of the GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies,established as a centre of excellence in gender studies in 2006. She is the author and editor of several books. Anna Jónasdóttir is known,i.a.,for her theory of "love power." Her book Why Women Are Oppressed was described as a "thorough attempt to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement" by The New York Times Book Review. She "explores the concept of women's interests in participatory democratic political theory."
Joni Lovenduski,is Professor Emerita of Politics at Birkbeck,University of London.
The modern-day character and the historical status of women in Denmark has been influenced by their own involvement in women's movements and political participation in the history of Denmark. Their mark can be seen in the fields of politics,women's suffrage,and literature,among others.
Kvinden &Samfundet is a Danish feminist magazine and the official publication of the Danish Women's Society. It has been published since 1885.
Vibeke Vasbo is a Danish writer and women's rights and LGBT rights activist. In the early 1970s,she participated in the Redstocking movement and in the Danish Lesbian Movement. She embarked on a literary career in 1976 with Al den løgn om kvinders svaghed expanding on the work of a woman crane driver,based on her experiences in Oslo in 1974-75.
The Lesbian Movement was a Danish organization for lesbians established in 1974 in Copenhagen by a group of women including Vibeke Vasbo who were unhappy about the degree of intolerance towards lesbians in the Danish Redstocking Movement.
The Red Stocking Movement was a Danish women's rights movement which was established in 1970 and was active until the mid-1980s. Inspired by the Redstockings founded in 1969 in New York City,it brought together left-wing feminists who fought for the same rights as men in terms of equal pay but it also addressed treatment of women in the workplace as well as in the family.
Ulla Dahlerup is a Danish journalist,writer and women's rights activist. She was one of the most prominent members of the Danish Red Stocking Movement in the early 1970s,an episode she used as a basis for her 1979 novel Søstrene. More recently,she has campaigned for the Danish People's Party.
This is a timeline of women in Denmark,noting important events in Danish women's history.
Inge Biehl Henningsen is a Danish statistician,academic and writer. A former researcher and lecturer at the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus,she has also been active in politics and women's rights,most recently in connection with the PISA approach to student assessment. As editor of the socialist journal Naturkampen in the 1980s,she covered subjects as varied as the management of cancer research and the European Union's approach to agriculture in the third world.
Anna Westergaard (1882–1964) was a Danish railway official and a highly influential women's rights activist. Working for the Danish State Railways where she later became a traffic supervisor,she became a board member of the Danish Railways Union (Jernbaneforeningen) and of the Danish Civil Servants Union. A strong proponent of equal rights for men and women in education and the labour market,she was a key contributor to management of the Danish Women's Society (1919–1924) and the Women's Council in Denmark (1938–1946). Westergaard represented Danish women's interests in discussions at the League of Nations in the mid-1930s. From 1937 to 1960,she was president of Open Door International for the Economic Emancipation of the Woman Worker. Politically,she belonged to the Danish Social Liberal Party and was an alternate in the Upper House or Landstinget from 1939 to 1953.
Birgitte Possing is a Danish historian who has specialized in historical biography. In 1992,paying special attention to aspects relating to gender,she earned a doctorate with Viljens styrke,a biography of the pioneering feminist and educator Natalie Zahle. Possing has headed the manuscript department of the Danish National Library and coordinated research at the National Museum of Denmark. From 2000 to 2004,she was director of Danmarks Humanistiske Forskningscenter after which she was appointed senior researcher at the Danish National Archives. In the late 1990s,while collaborating with Kvinfo on Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon covering women's biographies,Possing identified 1,140 Danish women of historical importance who had not been included in the authoritative biographical dictionary Dansk Biografisk Leksikon.
Birte Siim is a Danish political scientist specializing in gender studies. From 2004 to 2018,she was professor at the Institute for Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University where she managed FREIA,the Centre of Gender Research. Her numerous books and publications have addressed gender and politics from a European perspective. In addition to coordinating European Union projects,she has been active in the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.
Marlene Wind is a Danish political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen,where she has been also Director of the Center for European Policy. She specializes in the law,policies,and politics of the European Union.
Maud Elisabeth Landby Eduards is a Swedish political scientist and gender studies scholar. She is professor emerita of political science at Stockholm University.
Signe Arnfred is a Danish sociologist,feminist and writer who in 1971 became closely involved in Danish feminist activities. A leading figure in the Red Stocking Movement,she organized and participated in meetings and seminars which formed the basis of gender studies in Denmark. In the 1980s. together with her husband she spent four years in Mozambique where she was instrumental in developing a new approach to women in politics. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she was also active in Greenland. Arnfred has published books and articles addressing the place of women in society.
