Gerd Brantenberg

Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer. She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo. She has been a full-time writer since 1982. She has published 10 novels, 2 plays, 2 translations, and many political songs, and has contributed to numerous anthologies. Her most famous novel is Egalias døtre (Egalia's Daughters), which was published in 1977 in Norway. In the novel, the female is defined as the normal and the male as the abnormal, subjugated sex. All words that are normally in masculine form are given in a feminine form, and vice versa.