Michelle Perrot

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Michelle Perrot
Michelle Perrot juin 2016 (cropped).jpg
Perrot in 2016
Born (1928-05-18) 18 May 1928 (age 97)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupations
Notable work 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. [1] She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai. [2]

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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. [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

In translation

References

  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.