Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University.^[1] She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.^[2]

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.

In 2014, she received the Simone de Beauvoir Prize.^[3]

For her, feminism is a universal freedom.^[4] She is co-author of the book "A History of Women in the West".^[5]

• Délinquance et système pénitentiaire en France au XIXe siècle, Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 1975.
• Georges Duby & Michelle Perrot (eds.), Histoire des femmes en Occident, Paris: Plon, 1990–1991 (5 vols.)
• Images de femmes, (co-written with) Georges Duby, Paris: Plon, 1992, 189 p.
• Les femmes ou les silences de l'histoire, Paris: Flammarion, 1998.
• Les Ombres de l’Histoire. Crime et châtiment au XIXe siècle, Paris: Flammarion, 2001.
• Mon histoire des femmes, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006, 251 p. (ISBN 978-2-7578-0797-2).
• Histoire de chambres, Paris: Le Seuil, 2009 – Prix Femina Essai 2009.
• George Sand à Nohant : Une maison d'artiste, 2018