Beatrice Halsaa


Beatrice Halsaa is a Norwegian political scientist, gender studies expert and feminist. She was appointed as Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Oslo in 2003, the second person to hold a chair in that discipline at the University of Oslo. She was leader of the EU research project "Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements," which was a cooperation of 15 research institutions in ten countries. Her fields of expertise are gender equality, women's movements, feminist theory, and multiculturalism.
Halsaa holds a cand.polit. degree in political science from 1975. She worked at Lillehammer University College from 1977 to 2001, where she became Associate Professor in 1988. She was Professor II at the Norwegian [University of Science and Technology] from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, she became Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, and full Professor in 2003. She was a member of the Executive Board of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 2002 to 2010.

Selected publications

  • Christensen, Hilda Rømer, Beatrice Halsaa, Aino Saarinen :Crossing Borders. Re-Mapping Women's Movements at the Turn of the 21st Century. University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense,,
  • Halsaa, Beatrice og Else Viestad: I pose og sekk. Framtidsbilder. Emilia, Oslo,,
  • Halsaa, Beatrice: Ingen heksekunst! Håndbok for kommunale likestillingsutvalg. Kommuneforlaget, Oslo,
  • Halsaa, Beatrice and Janneke van der Ros: Muligheter og motstand: Rett person på rett sted. ODH Skriftserie nr. 81. Oppland distriktshøgskole/Østlandsforskning, Lillehammer,
  • Halsaa, Beatrice og Dag Seierstad: Norsk og internasjonal politikk. Cappelen, Oslo,
  • Haavio-Mannila, Elina, Drude Dahlerup, Maud Landby Eduards, E. Gudmundsdottir, Beatrice Halsaa, Helga M. Hernes, E. Hänninen-Salmelin, B. Sigmundsdottir, S. Sinkkonen, and Torild Skard: Unfinished Democracy. Women in Nordic Politics. Pergamon Press, Oxford,