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): Botho Strauss • Cahir Healy • Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu • Erima Northcroft • Gary Sánchez • George Minot • Jinsei Shinzaki • John Banks (New Zealand politician) • John Cobb (racing driver) • Jüri Reinvere • Luigi Malafronte • Nate Mendel • Paul Watson • Sylvia Syms (singer) • Tom McGuinness (musician)

Born in the same month (December 1942): Alex Johnson • Alice Schwarzer • Barry Goldberg • Chris Harris (actor) • David K. Shipler • Gray Davis • Harry Chapin • Indra Bania • Kathleen Blanco • Peter Handke • Ross Edwards (cricketer) • Toomas Savi