Michelle Perrot

Michelle Perrot
Perrot in 2016
Born	18 May 1928 Paris
Nationality	French
Occupations	French historian Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University
Notable work	Simone de Beauvoir Prize recipient

Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University.[1] She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.[2]

Life

She 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 ("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 France Culture radio.

In 2014, she received the Simone de Beauvoir Prize.[3]

For her, feminism is a universal freedom.[4] She is co-author of the book "A History of Women in the West".[5]

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. (ISBN 978-2-7578-0797-2).
• 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, ISBN 978-0300167092

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

1. "+titre+". Univ-paris-diderot.fr. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
2. "L' Histoire de chambres de Michelle Perrot : prix Femina essai 2009 - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées". Nonfiction.fr. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
3. "Le prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes attribué à Michelle Perrot". Le Monde.fr (in French). 24 December 2013. ISSN 1950-6244.
4. "Qui a peur de Beauvoir ?". France Culture (in French). 8 January 2018.
5. Duby and Perrot, Georges and Michelle (1993). A history of women. London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. Nil. ISBN 0-674-40366-5.