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 • Brandon Knight (basketball) • Cassie Steele • Christos Karipidis • Claudiu Keșerü • Fernando Consag • Jinsei Shinzaki • Marc Platt (dancer) • Pedro II of Brazil • Peter Harding (RAF officer, born 1933) • Russell Lynes • T. C. Boyle • Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin • Ulrika Bergquist • Zach Cunningham

Born in the same month (December 1942): Alex Johnson • Alice Schwarzer • Barry Goldberg • Bob Mosley • Chris Harris (actor) • Donald Carcieri • Ferguson Jenkins • Françoise Dürr • Jean-Claude Trichet • Mike Gibson (rugby union) • Rana Bhagwandas