Anna G. Jónasdóttir

Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir 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. 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." ^{Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Icelandic political scientist and academic}

2 December 1942

Born on the same birth day (2 December): Adam Kreek • Ann Patchett • António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra • Cahir Healy • Cassie Steele • Darryl Kile • Deacon White • Else Marie Pade • Eugene Jeter • George Minot • Guy Bourdin • Harry Reid • Inori Minase • Isaac Bitton • Jason Collins • Otto Dix • Penelope Spheeris • Razzle (musician) • Renee Montgomery • Silk Smitha • Wilson Jermaine Heredia

Born in the same month (December 1942): Barbara Follett (politician) • Barry Goldberg • Billy Bremner • Cornell Dupree • Dick Butkus • Donald Carcieri • Dorothy Morkis • Enrique Morente • Françoise Dürr • John Crowley (author) • Peter Tomarken • Rajesh Khanna