Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.

Life

She has worked on the history of labor movements, and studied with

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, with

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...

, and with Robert Badinter. She is a pioneer in the emergence of women's history and gender studies in France. She edited with Georges Duby, ''Histoire des femmes en Occident'' ("History of women in the West"; 5 vols.), Plon, 1990–1991). Her work appears in ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

'', and she produced and presented "History Mondays" (''les lundis de l'histoire'') on '' France Culture'' radio. In 2014, she received the Simone de Beauvoir Prize. For her, feminism is a universal freedom. She is co-author of the book "A History of Women in the West".

Works

*''Délinquance et système pénitentiaire en France au XIXe siècle'', Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 1975. *Georges Duby & Michelle Perrot (eds.), ''Histoire des femmes en Occident'', Paris: Plon, 1990–1991 (5 vols.) *''Images de femmes'', (co-written with) Georges Duby, Paris: Plon, 1992, 189 p. *''Les femmes ou les silences de l'histoire'', Paris: Flammarion, 1998. *''Les Ombres de l’Histoire. Crime et châtiment au XIXe siècle'', Paris: Flammarion, 2001. *''Mon histoire des femmes'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006, 251 p. (). *''Histoire de chambres'', Paris: Le Seuil, 2009 – Prix Femina Essai 2009. *''George Sand à Nohant : Une maison d'artiste'', 2018

In translation

* ''The Bedroom: An Intimate History'', translated by Lauren Elkin, Yale University Press, 2018,

References

External links

"Rencontre avec Michelle Perrot, l'historienne des marges"
''Interdits'', Dénètem et Sylvain, 6 February 2002.
"Entretien avec Michèle Perrot"
''multitudes'', April 1993 {{DEFAULTSORT:Perrot, Michele 1928 births Writers from Paris 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians Labor historians Prix Femina essai winners Living people Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite