Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928,

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) is a French

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, 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 labour movements, and studied with Ernest Labrousse, with

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, and with

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

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, ''Histoire des femmes en Occident'' ("History of women in the West"; 5 vols.), Plon, 1990–1991). Her work appears in ''

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'', 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. 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 Knights of the Legion of Honour Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite