Michelle Perrot Explained

Michelle Perrot
Birth Date:18 May 1928
Birth Place:Paris
Nationality:French
Occupation:
Notable Works:Simone de Beauvoir Prize recipient

Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University.[1] She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.[2]

Life

She has worked on the history of labor 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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: +titre+ . Univ-paris-diderot.fr . 2015-11-15.
  2. Web site: L' Histoire de chambres de Michelle Perrot : prix Femina essai 2009 - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées . Nonfiction.fr . 2015-11-15.
  3. News: Le prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes attribué à Michelle Perrot. 2013-12-24. Le Monde.fr. fr. 1950-6244.
  4. News: Qui a peur de Beauvoir ?. 2018-01-08. France Culture. fr-FR.
  5. Book: Duby and Perrot, Georges and Michelle. A history of women. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1993. 0-674-40366-5. London, England. Nil.