She has a political science, sociology, economic history and psychology background, with a political science doctorate from Gothenburg University (1991). Her dissertation was titled Love Power and Political Interests. Her main fields of research are social and political theory.
Jónasdóttir, Anna (1991). Love power and political interests: towards a theory of patriarchy in contemporary western societies. Örebro, Sweden: University of Örebro. ISBN9789176681169. Published in Spanish under the title El poder del amor: le importa el sexo a la democracia. Madrid Valencia Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra Universitat de València Instituto de la Mujer. 1993. ISBN9788437611891.
Jónasdóttir, Anna (1994). Why women are oppressed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN9781566391108.
Jónasdóttir, Anna; Rosenbeck, Bente; van der Fehr, Drude (1998). Is there a Nordic feminism?: Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. London Philadelphia: UCL Press. ISBN9781857288780.
Jónasdóttir, Anna; Jones, Kathleen (2009). The political interests of gender revisited: redoing theory and research with a feminist face. Tokyo New York: United Nations University Press. ISBN9789280811605. Pdf version.
Jónasdóttir, Anna; Jones, Kathleen; Bryson, Valerie (2011). Sexuality, gender and power intersectional and transnational perspectives. New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415880879.
Jónasdóttir, Anna G; Ferguson, Ann (2014). Love: a question for feminism in the twenty-first century. New York: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality. ISBN9780415704298.
Literature
Karlsson, Gunnel; Jones, Kathleen (2008). Gender and the interests of love: essays in honour of Anna G. Jónasdóttir. Örebro, Sweden: Örebro University Press. ISBN9789176686027.