Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928,

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) is a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the

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. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.

Life

She has worked on the history of labor movements, and studied with Ernest Labrousse, with Michel Foucault, and with

Robert Badinter Robert Badinter (; born 30 March 1928) is a French lawyer, politician and author who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, while serving as Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand. He has also served in high-lev ...

. She is a pioneer in the emergence of women's history and gender studies in France. She edited with

Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Franc ...

, ''Histoire des femmes en Occident'' ("History of women in the West"; 5 vols.), Plon, 1990–1991). Her work appears in '' Libération'', and she produced and presented "History Mondays" (''les lundis de l'histoire'') on ''

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'' radio. In 2014, she received the

Simone de Beauvoir Prize The Simone de Beauvoir Prize (french: Prix Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes) is an international human rights prize for women's freedom, awarded since 2008 to individuals or groups fighting for gender equality and opposing breaches of ...

. 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,

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, 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