Michelle Perrot | |
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![]() Perrot in 2016 | |
Born | Paris, France | 18 May 1928
Nationality | French |
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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]
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]