Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928) is a French historian and academic who is Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.
Perrot has worked on the history of labour 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, 1990âÂÂ1991).
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.
For her, feminism is a universal freedom. She is co-author of the book "A History of Women in the West".