Michelle Perrot
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| Born | 18 May 1928 Paris, France |
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| Notable work | Simone de Beauvoir Prize recipient |
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Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928) is a French historian and academic who is Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University.[1] She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.[2]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]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.[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
[edit | edit source]- 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. (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).).
- Histoire de chambres, Paris: Le Seuil, 2009 – Prix Femina Essai 2009.
- George Sand à Nohant : Une maison d'artiste, 2018
In translation
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- "Rencontre avec Michelle Perrot, l'historienne des marges", Interdits, Dénètem et Sylvain, 6 February 2002.
- "Entretien avec Michèle Perrot", multitudes, April 1993
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