Ida Blom (20 January 1931, in

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– 26 November 2016) was a Norwegian historian. She graduated from the

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in 1961, and then took her doctorate there in 1972 while working as a research assistant. She was a professor in

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at the University of Bergen from 1985 to 2001, and later a

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at the same school. She was a member of the

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. She was awarded the Gina Krog Prize in 2009.

Selected bibliography

*''Nasjonal reisning: pressgruppepolitikk i Grønlandsspørsmålet 1921-31'', 1972 *''Kjønnsroller og likestilling'', 1983 *''"Den haarde dyst": Fødsler og fødselshjelp gjennom 150 år'', 1988 *''Det er forskjell på folk - nå som før'', 1994 *''Cappelens kvinnehistorie'' (ed.), 1992 **This book received the

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References

University of Bergen
1931 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Norwegian historians University of Bergen alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Norwegian women academics People from Gentofte Municipality Norwegian women historians {{Norway-historian-stub