Karen Syberg (born 1945) is a Danish author, gender researcher and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

. In 1970, she was among those who founded the Red Stocking Movement in Denmark. She has since worked as a journalist and author of both fiction and non-fiction.

Biography and education

Karen Syberg was born on 24 December 1945 in Odense, the daughter of Franz Adolf Syberg, an organist and composer, and Gudrun Karen Marie Rasmussen. In 1997, she married Poul Erik Munk Nielsen, with whom she has one child, Kristian, born 1973. She grew up near Kerteminde on the island of

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. After matriculating from high school in Nyborg, she embarked on studies as a publicity draughtsman but gave them up after a year to study Danish and history in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

. She also abandoned these, taking up literature, in which she gained an M.A. in 1975.

Feminism

While at university, Syberg helped to found the

Danish Red Stocking Movement The Red Stocking Movement ( da, italic=no, Rødstrømpebevægelsen) was a Danish women's rights movement which was established in 1970 and was active until the mid-1980s. Inspired by the Redstockings founded in 1969 in New York City, it brought tog ...

in 1970. She was also active in setting up the women's camp on

Femø Femø is a Danish island north of Lolland. The island covers an area of 11.38 km2. Femø has 154 inhabitants (1 January 2005). 117 inhabitants 2021. Women's camp Every year since 1971 women have met and spent their holiday together in the n ...

in 1971.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Syberg, Karen 1945 births Living people People from Odense People from Kerteminde 20th-century Danish novelists Danish feminists 20th-century Danish women writers