Michelle Perrot

Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus 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.

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