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MONNEYRON Frédéric - Sociology of fashion
Frédéric Monneyron was born in Paris, France on March 25, 1954. In his teens, he has lived in Britain and Sweden, and more recently in Africa, Morocco and the United States. He is currently living in Montpellier, France. He received his Doctorat d’Etat en science politique from the University of Montpellier I in 1984 and his Doctorat d’Etat ès lettres et sciences humaines from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1986. He is a full Professor in comparative and general literature at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia where he is the head of the MBA “Fashion industries and luxury goods” coming to teach the English taught programme in Paris at Mod’Art International . He also teaches sociology of fashion at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and at the University of Barcelona and he is an expert to the European Commission in Brussels. His research focuses on sexuality, gender relations, clothes and fashion on the one hand and on the idea of nation and race, the relationships between Europe and the USA on the other hand. He is the author of around twenty books translated in major languages among which : Séduire, L’imaginaire de la séduction de Don Giovanni à Mick Jagger (PUF, Sociologies d’aujourd’hui, 1997, rééd. 2000), La Nation aujourd’hui. Formes et mythes, (L’Harmattan, Questions contemporaines, 2000), La Frivolité essentielle. Du vêtement et de la mode (PUF, Perspectives critiques, 2001), Mythes et littérature (PUF, 2002), L’imaginaire racial (L’Harmattan, 2004), La Mode et ses enjeux (Klincksieck, 2005), La Sociologie de la mode (PUF, 2006), L’Automobile. Un imaginaire contemporain (Imago, 2006), Le Monde hippie. La Photographie de mode. Un art souverain, Paris, PUF 2010. De l’imaginaire psychédélique à la révolution informatique (Imago, 2008) and is the editor of ten others. He is also a short stories writer (Sans nom et autres nouvelles, 1999) and a translator from English into French (A. K. Coomaraswamy and E. Wharton).