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Michelle Perrot is a renowned French historian specialising in women's history and labour studies. She is best known for editing Histoire des femmes en Occident (1990–1991) and for her book The Bedroom: An Intimate History (2018), which won the Prix Femina Essai in 2009. Perrot is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at Paris Diderot University.
Michelle Perrot was born in Paris and studied history under the guidance of Ernest Labrousse. She later worked with Michel Foucault and Robert Badinter. Perrot's early career was focused squarely on the history of labour movements and the French prison system in the 19th century. In 1975, she published Délinquance et système pénitentiaire en France au XIXe siècle.
Perrot was a leading figure in the development of women's history in France. Her collaboration with Georges Duby resulted in the five-volume series Histoire des femmes en Occident (1990–1991). The project comprehensively covered women's roles and representations from antiquity to the modern era. In 1992, she and Duby co-wrote Images de femmes. She later authored Les femmes ou les silences de l'histoire (1998), continuing her examination of women's absence from traditional narratives.
She regularly contributed to Libération and presented Les lundis de l'histoire on France Culture radio. In 2006, she published Mon histoire des femmes, a personal account of her intellectual journey through women's history.
In 2009, Perrot was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina Essai for Histoire de chambres, later translated as The Bedroom: An Intimate History (2018). The book confidently charts the evolution of bedrooms from ancient times to the present day.
It examines the changing functions of the bedroom—from royal chambers to prison cells—and links them to broader questions about privacy, gender, and space. Perrot writes that the history of women eager for a room of their own is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries.
The work draws on various sources, including memoirs, novels, diaries and architectural treatises. It also covers birth, illness, sex and death — events that often happen behind bedroom doors. Perrot's approach combines historical detail with cultural insight.
In 2014, Michelle Perrot was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize.
Michelle Perrot was born in Paris and studied history under the guidance of Ernest Labrousse. She later worked with Michel Foucault and Robert Badinter. Perrot's early career was focused squarely on the history of labour movements and the French prison system in the 19th century. In 1975, she published Délinquance et système pénitentiaire en France au XIXe siècle.
Perrot was a leading figure in the development of women's history in France. Her collaboration with Georges Duby resulted in the five-volume series Histoire des femmes en Occident (1990–1991). The project comprehensively covered women's roles and representations from antiquity to the modern era. In 1992, she and Duby co-wrote Images de femmes. She later authored Les femmes ou les silences de l'histoire (1998), continuing her examination of women's absence from traditional narratives.
She regularly contributed to Libération and presented Les lundis de l'histoire on France Culture radio. In 2006, she published Mon histoire des femmes, a personal account of her intellectual journey through women's history.
In 2009, Perrot was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina Essai for Histoire de chambres, later translated as The Bedroom: An Intimate History (2018). The book confidently charts the evolution of bedrooms from ancient times to the present day.
It examines the changing functions of the bedroom—from royal chambers to prison cells—and links them to broader questions about privacy, gender, and space. Perrot writes that the history of women eager for a room of their own is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries.
The work draws on various sources, including memoirs, novels, diaries and architectural treatises. It also covers birth, illness, sex and death — events that often happen behind bedroom doors. Perrot's approach combines historical detail with cultural insight.
In 2014, Michelle Perrot was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize.
years of life: 18 May 1928 – present
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