Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic

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and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ...

academic. She is

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at the Center for Feminist Social Studies at

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and co-director of the GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, 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

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Book Review''. She "explores the concept of women's interests in participatory democratic political theory."Chandra Talpade Mohanty, ''Feminism without Borders'', p. 161,

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, 2003, She has a political science, sociology, economic history and psychology background, with a political science doctorate from

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(1991). Her dissertation was titled ''Love Power and Political Interests''. Her main fields of research are

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and

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Selected books

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