Agnete Strøm

Bergen, Norway

Agnete Strøm is a feminist activist. She has been active in the global campaign to end violence towards women and children since 1972, and in that time has held pornography, prostitution, trafficking, female genital mutilation and reproductive health and rights as her main topics of focus.

Agnete is a founding member (1972) of Kvinnefronten, the Women’s Front of Norway, a radical feminist organisation. Agnete is a member of the Kvinnefronten board, with special responsibility for international relations.

In the paper A glimpse of 30 years of struggle against prostitution by the women’s liberation movement in Norway, she describes the period from 1977 till 2009, when the law that criminalises the purchasing of a sexual act came into effect.