Towards the Androgynous Ideal: Fashion and Sexual Identity

Frédéric Monneyron received his Doctorat d’Etat en Science Politique from the University of Mon- tpellier I in 1984 and his Doctorat d’Etat en 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 also the head of the M.B.A “Fashion industries and luxury goods” in Paris. He also teaches sociology of fashion at the University of Geneva 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 thirty books translated in major languages among which: La Frivolité essentielle. Du vê- tement et de la mode (PUF, Perspectives critiques, 2001), La Sociologie de la mode (PUF, 2006), La Photographie de mode. Un art souverain (PUF 2010) and L’Imaginaire du luxe (Imago, 2015).