Michelle Perrot

Michelle Perrot
Perrot in 2016
Born (1928-05-18) 18 May 1928 (age 98)
Paris, France
Occupations
Notable workSimone de Beauvoir Prize recipient

Michelle Perrot (French: [miʃɛl pɛʁo]; born 18 May 1928) is a French historian and academic who is Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.

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.

For her, feminism is a universal freedom. She is co-author of the book "A History of Women in the West".

In 2026 Perrot contributed her expertise on women's history as a member of the commission to develop a list of 72 women in STEM proposed to be added to the 72 men named on the Eiffel Tower.

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.
  6. ↑ 72 femmes de sciences pour la tour Eiffel (PDF). Femmes et sciences association. 2026. p. 93.