Anna G. Jónasdóttir

Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir (born 2 December 1942) is an Icelandic political scientist, gender studies academic and a leading figure internationally in the research into the concept of love. She is Professor Emerita at the Centre for Feminist Social Studies at Örebro University and Co-Director of the Swedish Centre of Gender Excellence. She is the author and editor of several books.

Selected books

• The Political Interests of Gender: Developing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face (with Kathleen B. Jones), Sage, 1988
• Love Power and Political Interests: Towards a Theory of Patriarchy in Contemporary Western Societies, University of Örebro, 1991
• Why Women Are Oppressed, Temple University Press, 1994 (published in Spanish under the title El poder del amor. Le importa el sexo a la democracia?, Madrid: Ediciones Catedra, 1993)
• 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 (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 and Kathleen B. Jones, eds.), Routledge, 2011, ISBN 0415880874
• Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (with Ann Ferguson, eds.), Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, 2013, ISBN 0415704294

Literature

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