Michelle Perrot

Michelle Perrot is a French Historian whose work is well known throughout the world. Michelle has always demonstrated a commitment to telling the stories of those who have traditionally been left out of history, this explains her interests which are labor history, the history of prisons, and women's history. Her most famous works all deal with these topics. She found her love of history through her Bible history teacher. She was a political activist taking place in movements and had a leading role in the anti-Algerian war of 1954 movement and helped to organize a demonstration against the war that took place on the streets of Caen. After that she chose to study the working class; she gets involved in the events of May 68 in Paris and becomes one of the founders of the new university that opened in response to the crisis. She also participates with two of her colleagues that she was offering courses in women's history with in demonstrations and other activities as part of the fights to make abortion legal in France. Michelle Perrot was a critical figure in women's history becoming a part of historical study.