Michelle Perrot

Michelle Perrot is best known for her studies of women's history although she also did extensive work and research on labor and prison history.  She told the story of people who were typically in the "shadows" of historical research; women, workers and prisoners.  She is credited with making women's history a valid subject of study in the 1970s.  Perrot has also made these topics and their scholarly debate available to the public by publishing in more popular historical magazines and through French radio shows.

The article describes how Perrot was greatly influenced by observing female prisoners in a prison yard adjacent to her school but does not indicate if she specifically studied female prisoners.  I wonder if she did.