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Norwegian author, teacher and feminist writer

Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born October 27, 1941) is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer.

Biography

Brantenberg was born in Oslo, but grew up in Fredrikstad.^[1] She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo.

She has an English hovedfag (main subject, comparable to a Master), from the University of Oslo, where she also studied history and political science. She worked as a lector in Norwegian and Danish high schools, and she also held positions at the trade union for lectors (Norsk Lektorlag) and the Norwegian Authors' Union.

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She worked from 1972 to 1983 in the Women's House in Oslo. She was a board member of the Norway's first association for homosexual people Forbundet av 1948, the precursor to the Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation.

She has established women's shelters and has worked in Lesbisk bevegelse (Lesbian movement) in b