'My Seven Mothers'

On November 15, join us for a talk on the memoir "My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement" with Pernille Ipsen! The distinguished author and historian will delve into her collective biography of the seven women who raised her and their lives and politics in the women’s and lesbian movements in Copenhagen in the 1970s, out now from University of Minnesota Press.

A chronicle of gender, sexuality, and feminism as it was constructed, contested, and lived, My Seven Mothers is an eye-opening account of the challenges and possibilities connected with liberation and radical social change during the 1970s. In this time of fierce struggles over family, sexuality, and child-rearing, it reminds us that new worlds are always possible.

“Pernille Ipsen weaves together a beautifully written account of the lives and choices of the seven women who became her mothers in a time of profound social upheaval. Compulsively readable and historically insightful, My Seven Mothers reveals the spirit, courage, and tenacity required of the women who paved the way for second-wave feminist organizing in Denmark.” —Birgitte Søland, author of Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s