Michelle Perrot Explained
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
- Délinquance et système pénitentiaire en France au XIXe siècle, Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 1975.
- Georges Duby & Michelle Perrot (eds.), Histoire des femmes en Occident, Paris: Plon, 1990–1991 (5 vols.)
- Images de femmes, (co-written with) Georges Duby, Paris: Plon, 1992, 189 p.
- Les femmes ou les silences de l'histoire, Paris: Flammarion, 1998.
- Les Ombres de l’Histoire. Crime et châtiment au XIXe siècle, Paris: Flammarion, 2001.
- Mon histoire des femmes, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006, 251 p. .
- Histoire de chambres, Paris: Le Seuil, 2009 – Prix Femina Essai 2009.
- George Sand à Nohant : Une maison d'artiste, 2018
In translation
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: +titre+ . Univ-paris-diderot.fr . 2015-11-15.
- 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.
- News: Le prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes attribué à Michelle Perrot. 2013-12-24. Le Monde.fr. fr. 1950-6244.
- News: Qui a peur de Beauvoir ?. 2018-01-08. France Culture. fr-FR.
- 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.