Birte Siim (born 1945) is a Danish political scientist specializing in

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. From 2004 to 2018, she was professor at the Institute for Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University where she managed FREIA, the Centre of Gender Research. Her numerous books and publications have addressed gender and politics from a European perspective. In addition to coordinating European Union projects, she has been active in the

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Standing Group on Gender and Politics.

Biography

Born on 27 November 1945 in

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport town and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban population of 71,698 (1 January 2022)

, Birte Siim studied political science at

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, graduating in 1974. In 1975, she joined the university's Department of Community Development and Planning. In 1985, she was a visiting professor at

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's Center for Research on Women and, in spring 2003, at

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's Department of Politics. In 2004, Siim was appointed Professor of Gender Research in the Social Sciences at Aalborg University's Department of Culture and Global Studies where she remained until her retirement in 2018. She has participated in several European Union projects including BEUCitizen, RAGE and VEIL.

Selected publications

Siim's many publications address gender and politics, democracy, citizenship and the welfare state: * * Recent publications from a European perspective include: *Siim, Birte (2013): "Citizenship" in ''Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics, Oxford University Press'' * *Siim, Birte; Rolandsen Agustin, L. (2014): "Gender Diversities – Practicing Intersectionality in the European Union". ''Ethnicities''. (14) 4: 539-555; *Siim, Birte (2014): "Conflicts and Negotiations about Framings of Gender and Ethnicity by Political Actors in the European Public Sphere", ''Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy'', 2014 (30) 01

References

1945 births Living people People from Esbjerg Danish political scientists 20th-century Danish non-fiction writers 21st-century Danish non-fiction writers Danish women writers Aarhus University alumni Academic staff of Aalborg University Women political scientists {{Denmark-bio-stub