Anna G. Jónasdóttir Explained

Anna G. Jónasdóttir
Birth Name:	Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir
Birth Date:	1942 12, df=yes
Alma Mater:	Gothenburg University
Thesis Title:	Love Power and Political Interests
Thesis Year:	1991
Main Interests:	Political scientist (gender studies)
Institutions:	GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies

Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic political scientist and gender studies academic. She is Professor Emerita at the Center for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University and co-director of the GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, established as a centre of excellence in gender studies in 2006.^[1] She is the author and editor of several books.^[2] Anna Jónasdóttir is known, i.a., for her theory of "love power." Her book Why Women Are Oppressed^[3] 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 "explores the concept of women's interests in participatory democratic political theory."^[4]

She has a political science, sociology, economic history and psychology background, with a political science doctorate 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

• Book: Jónasdóttir . Anna . Jones . Kathleen . The Political interests of gender: developing theory and research with a feminist face . Sage Publications . London Newbury Park . 1988 . 9780803980860 . registration .
• Book: Jónasdóttir, Anna . Love power and political interests: towards a theory of patriarchy in contemporary western societies . University of Örebro . Örebro, Sweden . 1991 . 9789176681169 . Published in Spanish under the title Book: El poder del amor: le importa el sexo a la democracia. Ediciones Cátedra Universitat de València Instituto de la Mujer. Madrid Valencia Madrid. 1993. 9788437611891.
• Book: Jónasdóttir, Anna . Why women are oppressed . Temple University Press . Philadelphia . 1994 . 9781566391108 .
• Book: Jónasdóttir . Anna . Rosenbeck . Bente . van der Fehr . Drude . Is there a Nordic feminism?: Nordic feminist thought on culture and society . UCL Press . London Philadelphia . 1998 . 9781857288780 .
• Book: Jónasdóttir . Anna . Jones . Kathleen . The political interests of gender revisited: redoing theory and research with a feminist face . United Nations University Press . Tokyo New York . 2009 . 9789280811605 . Pdf version.
• Book: Jónasdóttir . Anna . Jones . Kathleen . Bryson . Valerie . Sexuality, gender and power intersectional and transnational perspectives . Routledge . New York . 2011 . 9780415880879 .
• Book: Jónasdóttir . Anna G . Ferguson . Ann . Ann Ferguson . Love: a question for feminism in the twenty-first century . Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality . New York . 2014 . 9780415704298 .

Literature

• Book: Karlsson . Gunnel . Jones . Kathleen . Gender and the interests of love: essays in honour of Anna G. Jónasdóttir . Örebro University Press . Örebro, Sweden . 2008 . 9789176686027 .

References

1. Web site: Anna Jónasdóttir - Örebro universitet . 2013-03-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120430205657/http://www.oru.se/humus/anna_jonasdottir . 2012-04-30 .
2. Web site: パニック障害を自力で克服【最新版】. 21 October 2023 .
3. Book: Jónasdóttir, Anna . Why women are oppressed . Temple University Press . Philadelphia . 1994 . 9781566391108 .
4. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders, p. 161, Duke University Press, 2003,