Women in Battle: 150 years of fighting for freedom, equality and sisterhood

Event
Reading and conversation
13:30–14:00
Nordic Forum in Hall 4 / Leipzig Bookfair (Leipzig, Germany)

Marta Breen tells the history of the rebellious women in a committed, light-hearted and pointed way.

Organisers

Participants

Marta Breen
Karoline Hippe

Welcome to a reading and a conversation with the Norwegian author Marta Breen about her book Women in Battle.

Marta Breen

(1976) is an author of non-fiction with a number of publications to her name. Among other things, she has written the story of women in Norwegian music, the book ”Born Feminist” and the bestseller ”60 Women You Should Know About” in collaboration with illustrator Jenny Jordahl. They have also worked together on the book «The F Word», which won the Norwegian Ministry of Culture’s textbook prize for young people.

Women in Battle

150 years ago, women and men led very different lives. Women could not vote or make their own money. They had no control over their own bodies. The father would make a womans decisions until she was married. Then her husband would take over.

This changed when women began to organize. In this book writer Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl tell the story about the women´s movements many dramatic battles.

Breen and Jordahl have cooperated about a number of book projects, amongst others The F word. 155 reasons to be a feminist a title for which they received the Norwegian Cultural Ministry non-fiction award in 2015, and the bestseller 60 Women you should have known (2016).

Information zur Veranstaltung

Moderation: Karoline Hippe

Date: 21.03.2019

Time: 02.30 pm -03.00 pm

Place: Nordisches Forum, Halle 4, Stand C400

Leipzig Book Fair 2019Literary programme