Katti Anker Mųller

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A pioneer. Advocating women‘s right to chose over her own body in the late 19th/ early 20th century, and that women didn‘t have true freedom until they could. She was a huge influence in the first children‘s law in Norway, giving children born in and outside of marriage the same rights and forcing men to pay for their children. She also talked out the right to abortion 70 yrs before Norway had such laws

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Andrew65 What a great woman. 2w

Jari-chan Wow!! 2w

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AnneCecilie

Katti Anker Mųller | Hege Duckert

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What a woman!

Katti (1868-1945) was born into one of the richest families in Norway, even if her dad lost his money. In her youth she was praised for her beauty and her dancing cards were always full. She could have lived a comfortable life

Instead she was in her teens when she started noticing how the numerous pregnancies were effecting her mother‘s health. She wasn‘t much older when she started noticing how the unmarried maids would disappear

AnneCecilie once they got pregnant. Despite proclaiming she would never get married, she married her cousin when she was 20 and had 3 kids. Before they got married, her fiancé had to find a priest that would marry them without including the text about how a woman should obey her husband. Her mother‘s situation and the maids, would be her guiding stars in the work she set out to do. Improving women‘s situation and to give them control over their own body. In (edited) 3mo

AnneCecilie many of her ideas, she was decades ahead of her time, like a women‘s right to choose to have an abortion. Katti said on numerous occasions that a woman wasn‘t free until she could choose over her own body. She played a huge part in the children‘s laws that was passed in 1915 giving children born inside and outside of marriage equal rights and making it possible to punish men who didn‘t support their kids. She founded several mother‘s home and 3mo

AnneCecilie wanted to change the stigma surrounding unmarried mothers. She would travel the country and give speeches about this, but soon learned that she wouldn‘t find support in the Women‘s Right Movement, but in the labor movement. Always thinking about the women, the first thing she did when the Nazis invaded Norway, was to burn the registry of all the women who had been in contact with the mother‘s home for prevention and all the letters she had (edited) 3mo

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AnneCecilie received, knowing full well what the Nazis meant on motherhood. And as the book drew to a close, it also had me thinking about her husband Kai and what a remarkable man he must have been, standing by his wife‘s side as ā€everyoneā€¯ was against her opinions. Their oldest daughter continued her work. (edited) 3mo

Dilara Wow! What a woman. I don't think I'd ever heard of her. Also, good on the Swedish government for passing the children's laws you mention. I think those were only passed in the 1980s in France... 3mo

AnneCecilie @Dilara I know. I‘m not sure that many in Norway knew about her either. Hopefully this biography will change that. This was a library book and the waiting list has been long (edited) 3mo

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AnneCecilie

Katti Anker Mųller | Hege Duckert

I know most Littens don‘t understand Norwegian, so I‘ll translate: ā€The 20th April all Norwegian children are given the same rights when ā€the Castbergian children‘s lawsā€¯ are passed in Parliament. Norway has gotten a law completely unlike any other country‘s. In the time that follow, it will draw attention internationallyā€¯.

So what did the law do?

It consists of six laws:
1. Children born inside and outside marriage is equal according to the law

AnneCecilie 2. All children shall have the same right to inheritance. 3. Married couples is given the opportunity to have separate property if one of them have children outside of marriage. 4. Suggests changes in the divorce law. 5. Both parents have a responsibility to support the child. 6. Shall secure unmarried mothers financially. And in case anyone wondered: This law was passed in 1915. Johan Castberg and Kati Anker Møller had been working on them for 15 (edited) 3mo

AnneCecilie years. And since Norway always looks to the other Scandinavian countries, it would take Sweden 22 years to get similar laws and Denmark over 50 years 3mo

AnnCrystal Interesting. Thanks for the translation š‰š‘¨š’¯. 3mo

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Jari-chan Proud of Norway for this. Proud of me since I could read and understand it š™ 3mo

AnneCecilie @Jari-chan It‘s always nice when you understand more than you thought in an other language. I‘m the same way about French which is getting worse by the year. 3mo

Jari-chan @AnneCecilie Sadly, languages disappear when not used. I also have the feeling my English is getting worse š™ 3mo

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AnneCecilie

Katti Anker Mųller | Hege Duckert

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Katti Anker Møller

Finish the 10 th Department Q book. This was bigger than I expected, so I‘m not not sure what I‘ll pick up next, I have several options. I have several books due back to the library on the 11th, so if there‘s time, I might get to one of them.

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AnneCecilie

Katti Anker Mųller | Hege Duckert

#BookReport

I‘ve started Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Katti Anker Møller

I read On the Calculation of Volume. 4 and Held

I‘ve just started the 10th book in the Department Q crime series

dabbe YAY! š–¤š§�š–¤ 3mo

Texreader We like some of the same authors!! 3mo

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AnneCecilie

Katti Anker Mųller | Hege Duckert

#WeeklyForecast

The beginning of a new month,& the beginning of some longer reads. I‘ll start Sovereign #ShardlakeBR. I‘m also about to start Katti Anker Møller

I‘m about to start the 4th book in the On the Calculation of Volume series

I also hope to get to T and T and T before it‘s due back on Thursday

SavidgeReads and LouiseSavidgeMuses, are reading the Booker shortlist and the 1st book they‘ll discuss is Held so I hope to get to that too

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