Michelle Zancarini-Fournel (born 1947) is a French

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'' of contemporary history at the

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, and former co-director of the semi-annual journal, Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire. Her research focuses on the history of popular movements. She has published books and numerous articles in various journals. She is a specialist in the history of women and gender, as well as

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Biography

Zancarini-Fournel began her career in 1969 as a secondary school teacher. Supervised by , her doctoral thesis in history was titled, (Women's journey: realities and representations, Saint-Étienne, 1880-1950), which she defended in 1988 at

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. A specialist in the history of women and gender, Zancarini-Fournel and Françoise Thébaud co-founded the history journal, ''Clio''. Zancarini-Fournel also specialized in the topic

, whose archives she first helped to save, before writing the history of the event. She also focused on the event in her

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dissertation, which was partially published in the book she co-edited (68: une histoire collective).9. In 2016, she published a popular history of France, entitled (Struggles and Dreams).

Selected works

* ''Parcours de femmes: réalités et représentations, Saint-Étienne (1880-1950)'', with Mathilde Dubesset, Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1993. * ''Différence des sexes et protection sociale, XIXe – XXe siècles'', with

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, Paris, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 1995. * ''Les Années 68 : le temps de la contestation'', with , and Marie-Françoise Lévy, Complexe/IHTP, 2000. * ''Le groupe d'information sur les prisons : archives d'une lutte, 1970-1972'', with , Paris, IMEC, 2001. * Collectif, ''Le siècle des féminismes'', Paris, l'Atelier, 2004. * ''Histoire des femmes en France : XIXe – XXe siècles'', Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2005. * ''Le genre du sport'', Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2006 , 379 pages. * ''68, une histoire collective, 1962-1981'', with Philippe Artières, Paris, La Découverte, 2008 , 847 pages. * ''Le moment 68 : une histoire contestée'', Paris, Le Seuil, 2008 , 313 pages. *''Luttes de femmes : 100 ans d'affiches féministes'', with , Les Echappés, 2013, 136 pages. * ''Les luttes et les rêves. Une histoire populaire de la France de 1685 à nos jours'', Paris, La Découverte, 2016 , 990 pages. * ''Une histoire nationale est-elle encore possible ?'', Pessac, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2018 , 80 pages. * ''Ne nous libérez pas, on s'en charge. Une histoire des féminismes de 1789 à nos jours'', with Bibia Pavard and , Paris, La Découverte, 2020 , 510 pages. * ''De la défense des savoirs critiques: Quand le pouvoir s'en prend à l'autonomie de la recherche'', with Claude Gautier, Paris, La Découverte, 2022 , 272 pages.

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