Deficit

Emma is one of the most important feminist voices of the 21st century. This book will be mentioned in all the feminist history books. Emma Holten could write a phone book and I’d read and love every single word. I love everything Emma Holten says, everything she writes and anything she touches. Emma Holten is going to change the world and you better get on board now, by reading this book. This book will make everything make sense. The book about capitalism we didn’t know we needed – Sofie Hagen At once poignant and accessible, Deficit deftly exposes how our existing economic institutions fail to value care in our societies and are incapable of understanding why relationships between people matter. A truly impressive book – Rosie Collington, author of THE BIG CON

Emma Holten is a feminist activist and gender policy consultant. In 2014 she created the project CONSENT about her own experience with digital sexual violence. Since 2019, she has worked with feminist economics. She served on the European Institute of Gender Equality Experts Forum as an expert in feminist economics, and on Human Rights Watch’s advisory committee on Women’s Rights. In 2023 she was appointed as advisor to the Danish government’s investigation of power in Denmark. She has delivered keynotes at the Conference on the Status of Women at the UN, New York, Amsterdam, TED x Vienna amongst many other places. She also has a degree in Comparative Literature and has translated Chris Kraus and Melissa Broder. She lives in Copenhagen. Deficit is her first book.