Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic
political scientist and
gender studies academic. She is
Professor Emerita
''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...
at the
Center for Feminist Social Studies at
Örebro University and co-director of the
, established as a
centre of excellence in gender studies in 2006. 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 "explores the concept of women's interests in participatory democratic political theory."
[Chandra Talpade Mohanty, ''Feminism without Borders'', p. 161, Duke University Press, 2003, ]
She has a background in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology, with a doctorate in political science from
Gothenburg University
The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...
(1991). Her dissertation was titled ''Love Power and Political Interests''. Her main fields of research are
social and
political theory
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1942 births
21st-century Icelandic philosophers
Anna G. Jonasdottir
Anna G. Jonasdottir
Feminist philosophers
Women's studies academics
Living people
University of Gothenburg alumni
Feminist theorists
Critical theorists
Academic staff of Örebro University
Anna G. Jonasdottir
Anna G. Jonasdottir
20th-century Icelandic philosophers