Michèle Perrot is a French historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, and Professor emeritus at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.

Life

She has worked on the history of labor movements, and studied with Ernest Labrousse

Ernest Labrousse

Camille-Ernest Labrousse was a French historian specializing in social and economic history.Labrousse established a historical model centered on three nodes—economic, social and cultural—inventing the quantitative history sometimes now called "cliometrics"...

, with Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

, and with Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter is a high-profile French criminal lawyer, university professor and politician mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty, the abolition of which he successfully sponsored in Parliament in 1981...

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She is a pioneer in the emergence of women's history and gender in France.
She edited with Georges Duby

Georges Duby

Georges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages...

, Women's History in the West (5 vol., Plon, 1991–1992).

Her work appears in Libération, and she produced and presented Mondays in the history of France Culture

France Culture

France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes , as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions...

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Works

• Histoire de chambres, Paris, Le Seuil, 2009 – Prix Femina Essai 2009.
• Mon histoire des femmes, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2006, 251 p. (ISBN 978-2-7578-0797-2).
• Les Ombres de l’Histoire. Crime et châtiment au XIXe siècle, Paris, Flammarion, 2001.
• Les femmes ou les silences de l'histoire, Paris, Flammarion, 1998.
• Georges Duby et Michelle Perrot (eds), Histoire des femmes en Occident, Plon, Paris, 1990–1991 (5 volumes).
• Images de femmes, (co-written with) Georges Duby, Paris, Plon, 1992, 189 p.
• Délinquance et système pénitentiaire en France au XIXe siècle, Annales Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 1975.

External links

• "Michelle Perrot", French wikipedia
• "Rencontre avec Michelle Perrot, l'historienne des marges", Interdits, Dénètem et Sylvain, 6 February 2002.
• "Entretien avec Michèle Perrot", multitudes, April 1993