Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir

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

Life

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

She is best known for her research on love and her theory of "love power".

She holds a PhD 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 von der Fehr and Bente Rosenbeck, eds.), Routledge, 1998
• The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face (PDF; 740 kB) (with Kathleen B. Jones, ed.), 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 0-415-88087-4
• Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (with Ann Ferguson, ed.), Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, 2013, ISBN 0-415-70429-4

literature

• Kathleen B. Jones and Gunnel Karlsson (eds), Gender and the Interests of Love. Essays in honor of Anna G. Jónasdóttir , Örebro University Press, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna Jónasdóttir - Örebro universitet ( Memento of the original of April 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ GEXcel - center for gender excellence

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