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Master of Arts in Cultural History by the University of Aberdeen and Doctor (PhD) in Sociology of Gender by the University of Edinburgh. She is currently Honorary Fellow at the Sociology Department of the University of Edinburgh, member of the Research Group on the Anthropology of the Body “Cos-logia” (Institut Català d’Antropologia) and a founding member of the International Society for Cultural History. She has recently hold a “Francesca Bonnemaison Research Grant for Equal Opportunities and Gender”, granted by the Office for the Promotion of Equality Women-Men (Barcelona Provincial Council). Her first book Transexualidad y la Matriz Heterosexual: un estudio crítico de Judith Butler (Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona 2009) is commended by Prof Judith Butler (Berkeley University).

She regularly lectures on feminist theory, sociology of the body, science and gender, sociology of style and fashion at graduate, postgraduate and doctoral level at several universities and educational institutions such as the Interuniversity Institute for Women and Gender Studies, the universities of Barcelona, Autonomous of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra, (ELISAVA, IDEC) Girona, Interuniversity Institute for Women and Gender Studies (IIEDG), Catalonia’s Open University, Faculty of Communication Blanquerna (University Ramon Llull), University of the Balearic Islands, Vic (BAU School of Design) Escola de la Dona - Centre Bonnemaison, Institute for the International Education of Students (IES - Barcelona) and Istituto Europeo di Design (Barcelona). Quality Label Recognition as Tenure Track Lecturer granted by the Agency for University Quality (Governement of Catalonia). She regularly coordinates seminars, courses and conference cycles, such as “The Social Construction of Identity. Body, Gender and Culture” for the CaixaFòrum Foundation (Barcelona & Madrid, 2009).  She worked in media as fashion model, actress and TV presenter between 1979-1989.