Michelle Perrot
Michelle Perrot is a French historian and academic who is Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.
Life and career
Perrot has worked on the history of labour movements, and studied with Ernest Labrousse, with Michel Foucault, 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.
Her work appears in Libération, and she produced and presented "History Mondays" 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, Histoire des femmes en Occident, Paris: Plon, 1990–1991 Images de femmes, 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