To decide on life
Lecture by Hege Duckert
The event is included in the museum entrance fee
Hege Duckert tells about Katti Anker Møller's fight for all women's rights to obstetric care, contraception and abortion.
Join us for a fascinating meeting about one of our most important women's political activists and social reformers.
Katti Anker Møller was a radical in her time. When she proposed maternity care for unmarried mothers and access to contraception, she was ridiculed. She was the woman behind the Castberg Children's Laws, which gave children born out of wedlock the right to inherit from their fathers. In 1916, she organized a nationwide exhibition that put mothers and children on the agenda. The maternity hospital exhibition is today part of the Medical Museum.
Hege Duckert is a journalist and author and works as chief of staff at NRK. Now she is working on a biography of Katti Anker Møller. Thanks to extensive source material, Duckert gets up close and personal with the revolutionary upper-class woman who fought for the rights of the weakest throughout her life.
Program
- Welcome by Thea Aarbakke, National Medical Museum
- Deciding on life - a lecture about Katti Anker Møller, by Hege Duckert
- Maternity home exhibition, guided tour with Ingebjørg Eidhammer and Tone Rasch, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
- Book sale and signing by Hege Duckert

Part of the maternity home exhibition 1916, which shows cots, clothes for pregnant women and infants, and equipment for a health center. Photo: NTM

Katti Anker Møller - to decide over life
Hege Duckert's biography of Katti Anker Møller (1868–1945) has deservedly received much praise. The book is captivating, easy to read, and provides a vivid picture of Møller and her environment during an interesting period in Norwegian political history.

Hege Duckert
Hege Duckert is a journalist and author, and currently works as Chief of Staff at NRK. She has previously been culture editor at NRK and editor at Dagbladet.
Photo: Agnete Brun

