Julia Varela Fernández has a PhD. in educational science from the Complutense
University and in Sociology from Paris
VIII-Vincennes University. She is professor of sociology at the Complutense
University and has been visiting lecturer
at Goldsmiths College, London and the
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.
She has directed doctoral theses and
research projects, especially on educational sociology and sociology of gender
and has given courses and lectures at
European and Latin American universities.
The books she has written over the last two
years include: ‘Nacimiento de la mujer burguesa’ [The birth of the bourgeois woman]
(1997), ‘Las reformas educativas a debate’
[educational reforms debated] (2007),
‘Mujeres con voz propia’ [Women speaking
for themselves] (2012), ‘Sociología, capitalismo y democracia’ [Sociology, capitalismo and democracy] (2004); ‘Materiales
de sociología del arte’ [Sociology of art
materials] (2008), and ‘Sociología de las
instituciones’ [The sociology of institutions](2010); the final three together with
Fernando Álvarez-Uría.
