Harriet Holter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harriet Holter

Norwegian psychologist

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1922

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1997

Profession: psychologist, sociologist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Harriet Holter

  • Harriet Holter (11 April 1922 – 18 December 1997) was a Norwegian social psychologist. She graduated with the cand.oecon.
  • degree in 1946, and was eventually hired as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, which was established in 1950.Despite having a degree in economics, the prospect of making an academic career in this field became unsettling for Holter.
  • In her early career, she researched the working life.
  • After analyses of the role of women in the workforce, she began concentrating more on women's studies in general.
  • As she took the dr.philos.
  • degree in 1970 on the thesis Sex Roles and Social Structure (which was also selected for the Norwegian Sociology Canon in 2009–2011), Holter became a pioneer in this field in the Nordic countries.She was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1973.
  • She continued researching gender roles, publishing Kvinners liv og arbeid: kjønnsroller og sosial struktur in 1974.
  • She later edited the books Familien i klassesamfunnet (1976), Kvinner i fellesskap (1982) and Patriarchy in a Welfare Society (1984).
  • Her own works Tvang til seksualitet (1986) and Sex i arbeid(et) i Norge (1992) pertained to the field of gender and sexuality studies, and the former became controversial.
  • She retired as a professor in 1992, but continued working as a senior researcher.
  • Among her last publications were the 1996 Hun og han.
  • Kjønn i forskning og politikk, a textbook on gender and politics for which she was co-editor.Holter died in December 1997, following long-term illness.
  • A house at the University of Oslo campus, Blindern, has been named after her.In 2008 her son Øystein GullvÃ¥g Holter became Norway's first professor of men's studies, having been appointed at the University of Oslo.

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