{{Short description|French historian (born 1928)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Michelle Perrot | image = Michelle Perrot juin 2016 (cropped).jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Perrot in 2016 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1928|5|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = *French historian *Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = Simone de Beauvoir Prize recipient }}
'''Michelle Perrot''' (born 18 May 1928) is a French historian and academic who is Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/sc/site.php?bc=40ans&np=PS_070711&g=m |title=+titre+ |publisher=Univ-paris-diderot.fr |date= |accessdate=2015-11-15}}</ref> She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nonfiction.fr/article-2919-l_histoire_de_chambres_de_michele_perrot__prix_femina_essai_2009.htm |title=L' ''Histoire de chambres'' de Michelle Perrot : prix Femina essai 2009 - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées |publisher=Nonfiction.fr |date= |accessdate=2015-11-15}}</ref>
==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'' ("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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/12/24/le-prix-simone-de-beauvoir-pour-la-liberte-des-femmes-attribue-a-michelle-perrot_4339719_3246.html|title=Le prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes attribué à Michelle Perrot|date=2013-12-24|work=Le Monde.fr|language=fr|issn=1950-6244}}</ref>
For her, feminism is a universal freedom.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-grande-table-2eme-partie/qui-a-peur-de-beauvoir|title=Qui a peur de Beauvoir ?|date=2018-01-08|work=France Culture|language=fr-FR}}</ref> She is co-author of the book "A History of Women in the West".<ref>{{Cite book|title=A history of women|last=Duby and Perrot|first=Georges and Michelle|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|year=1993|isbn=0-674-40366-5|location=London, England|pages=Nil}}</ref>
==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== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://interdits.net/interdits/index.php/Rencontre-avec-Michelle-Perrot-l-historienne-des-marges.html "Rencontre avec Michelle Perrot, l'historienne des marges"], ''Interdits'', Dénètem et Sylvain, 6 February 2002. * [http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Entretien-avec-Michele-Perrot "Entretien avec Michèle Perrot"], ''multitudes'', April 1993
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