Emma Holten is a Danish author and public intellectual known for her feminist and political writing. Her debut book Underskud (2024) examines the relationship between economics, care work and gender roles, and won the Læsernes Bogpris 2025. She has also been widely read as a columnist and activist.
Emma Holten challenges economic models that classify women as a deficit, exploring the true value of care and invisible labour in society.
Emma Holten and Sine Plambech discuss debt, power and morality in relation to David Graeber's influential work. The conversation is recorded for the podcast "The Planetary Library".
Gry Worre Hallberg and feminist Emma Holten explore poetic and caring ways of living through conversation and performative exercise at Bank og Sparekassemuseet.