characterized by formal-legal equality and women's relative economic independence,
women continue to be subordinated to men through sexuality and love. By means of an
innovative application of Roy Bhaskar's critical realism, dialectical critical realism and
philosophy of metaReality, it investigates and elaborates Anna G. Jónasdóttir's claim that
men tend to exploit women of their 'love power'. Also, the thesis advances a critique of the …