Anna G. Jónasdóttir

Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir ( born December 2, 1942) is an Icelandic political scientist.

Life

Anna Guðrún is a professor of gender studies at Örebro University and Co - Director of the Centre of Gender Excellence, a collaboration between several universities in Sweden. Her focus is on political theory and social theory.

She is primarily known for her research on the topic of love and its theory of " Love Power ".

She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Gothenburg (1991) and studied political science, sociology, economic history and psychology.

Books (selection)

• The Political interests of gender: Developing theory and research with a feminist face ( with Kathleen B. Jones ), Sage, 1988
• Why Women Are Oppressed, Temple University Press, 1991
• Love power and political interests: towards a theory of patriarchy in contemporary western societies, Örebro University, 1991
• Is There A Nordic Feminism? (with Drude of the Fehr and Rose Bente Beck, eds. ), Routledge, 1998
• The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face ( PDF; 740 kB ) ( 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 og Kathleen B. Jones, eds ), Routledge, 2011, ISBN 0-415-88087-4
• Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty - First Century ( with Ann Ferguson, eds ), Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, 2013, ISBN 0-415-70429-4