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| '''Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir''' (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic ], ] academic and a leading figure internationally in the research into the concept of ]. She is ] at the Centre for Feminist Social Studies at ] and Co-Director of the Swedish ].<ref>http://www.oru.se/humus/anna_jonasdottir</ref> She is the author and editor of several books.<ref>http://www.genderexcel.org/?q=node/95</ref> Anna Jónasdóttir is known, i.a., for her theory of "love power." Her book ''Why Women Are Oppressed'' was described as a "thorough attempt to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement" by ''] Book Review''. | '''Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir''' (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic ], ] academic and a leading figure internationally in the research into the concept of ]. She is ] at the Centre for Feminist Social Studies at ] and Co-Director of the Swedish ].<ref>http://www.oru.se/humus/anna_jonasdottir</ref> She is the author and editor of several books.<ref>http://www.genderexcel.org/?q=node/95</ref> Anna Jónasdóttir is known, i.a., for her theory of "love power." Her book ''Why Women Are Oppressed'' was described as a "thorough attempt to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement" by ''] Book Review''. | ||
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Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic political scientist, gender studies academic and a leading figure internationally in the research into the concept of love. She is Professor Emerita at the Centre for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University and Co-Director of the Swedish Centre of Gender Excellence. She is the author and editor of several books. Anna Jónasdóttir is known, i.a., for her theory of "love power." Her book Why Women Are Oppressed was described as a "thorough attempt to revitalize one of the most provocative early themes of America's women's liberation movement" by The New York Times Book Review.
She has a background in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology, with a doctorate in political science from Gothenburg University (1991). Her dissertation was titled Love Power and Political Interests. Her main fields of research are social and political theory.
Selected books
- The Political Interests of Gender: Developing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face (with Kathleen B. Jones), Sage, 1988
- Love Power and Political Interests: Towards a Theory of Patriarchy in Contemporary Western Societies, University of Örebro, 1991
- Why Women Are Oppressed, Temple University Press, 1994 (published in Spanish under the title El poder del amor. Le importa el sexo a la democracia?, Madrid: Ediciones Catedra, 1993)
- Is There A Nordic Feminism? (with Drude von der Fehr and Bente Rosenbeck, eds.), Routledge, 1998
- The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face (with Kathleen B. Jones, eds.), Tokyo/New York/Paris: United Nations University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-92-808-1160-5
- Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives (with Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones, eds.), Routledge, 2011, ISBN 0415880874
- Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (with Ann Ferguson, eds.), Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, 2013, ISBN 0415704294
Literature
- Kathleen B. Jones and Gunnel Karlsson (eds), Gender and the Interests of Love. Essays in honour of Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Örebro University Press, 2008