Michelle Perrot

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]

Michelle Perrot
Perrot in 2016
Born18 May 1928
Paris
NationalityFrench
Occupation
Notable work
Simone de Beauvoir Prize recipient

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].One of the works of Michelle Perrot is The Bedroom, a review of an intimate history. The bedroom, according to Perrot, is the place where we are most authentically, and explosively, ourselves..[5] She is a co-author to the book "A history of Women".[6]

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. (ISBN 978-2-7578-0797-2).
  • Histoire de chambres, Paris: Le Seuil, 2009 – Prix Femina Essai 2009.
  • George Sand à Nohant : Une maison d'artiste, 2018

In translation
  • The Bedroom: An Intimate History, translated by Lauren Elkin, Yale University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0300167092

References
  1. ""+titre+"". Univ-paris-diderot.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
  2. "L' ''Histoire de chambres'' de Michelle Perrot : prix Femina essai 2009 - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées". Nonfiction.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
  3. "Le prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes attribué à Michelle Perrot". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2013-12-24. ISSN 1950-6244.
  4. "Qui a peur de Beauvoir ?". France Culture (in French). 2018-01-08.
  5. Hughes, Kathryn (2018-12-11). "The Bedroom by Michelle Perrot review – an intimate history". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  6. 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.
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