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Prestwich, Pat

Dr.  Patricia Prestwich

(Emerita Professor)

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
M.A., University of Toronto, 1965
B.A., University of Toronto, 1964

2-15 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-4569

pat.prestwich@ualberta.ca

Expertise & Research Interests 


Modern France
History of Women
History of Alcohol (France)
History of Psychiatry (France)

Teaching

HIST 206 - Introduction to the History of Women
HIST 305 - France 1760 - 1870
HIST 306 - France since 1870
HIST 326 - History at the Movies
HIST 402 - Women in Modern European History
HIST 411/426- Topics in the History of Modern France: Health and Public Welfare; Historical Novels and Construction of French History in Twentieth Century
HIST 550 - Advanced Topics in Historical Study

Publications
Drink and the Politics of Social Reform:  Antialcoholism in France Since 1870, (Palo Alto: SPOSS, 1988), 365 pp.

Chapters in Book:

"Modernizing Politics in the Fourth Republic: Women in the Mouvement RépublicainPopulaire, 1944-58," in Martin Alexander and Ken Mouré (eds), Crisis and Renewal in Modern France (Berghahn Book, 2002), 199-220.

"Food and Drink in France" in William B. Cohen, The Transformation of Modern France (Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 160-181.

"Women and Madness in a Nineteenth-Century Parisian Asylum", in S. Neuman and G. Stephenson (eds.), ReImagining Women, University of Toronto Press, 1993, pp. 111-124.

Reprints:

“Family Strategies and Medical Power: ‘Voluntary’ Committal in a Parisian Asylum, 1876-1914,” in Roy Porter and David Wright, The Confinement  of the Insane, 1800-1965:International Perspectives(Cambridge, 2003)

Drinkers, Drunkards and Degenerates: The Alcoholic Population of a Parisian Asylum, 1867-1914" in Jack Blocker & Cheryl Warsh (eds),The Changing Face of Drink: Substance, Imagery, and Behaviour (Ottawa: Les publications Histoire sociale/Social History, 1997).

Refereed Articles:

                  

“Female alcoholism in Paris , 1870-1920: the response of psychiatrists and of families,” History of Psychiatry, 14(3), 2003, 3321-336.

 

"Moving Up in the Trente Glorieuses: Reading Annie Ernaux's Cleaned Out as a Historical Text," 33 ms pages,  accepted for publication in June 2002 by Dalkey Archive Press as part of a web-based casebook on the novel Cleaned Out in the Dalkey series, Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction.

 

"Germaine Poinso-Chapuis et les femmes du MRP," in "Germain Poinso-Chapuis et son temps" Colloque organisé par L'Association "Les Femmes et la Ville," (Edisud, 1998), pp. 87-94.

 

"Paul-Maurice Legrain (1860-1939),"in Addiction, 10(1997), 92(10), pp. 1255-1263.

 

"The Regulation of Drinking: New Work in the Social History of Alcohol", Editor's Introduction to two special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems Fall and Winter,1994, pp. 365-74.

 

"Family Strategies and Medical Power:'Voluntary' Committal in a Parisian Asylum, 1876-1914", Journal of Social History, Vol. 27, No. 4, June 1994, pp. 797-816.

 

"Drinkers, Drunkards or Degenerates?: The Alcoholic Population of a Parisian Asylum, 1867-1914", Histoire sociale/Social History, Vol. XXVII (No. 54), November 1994, pp. 321-35.

 

“Diagnosing Degeneration: Clinical Practices in a Parisian Asylum, 1867-1914,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History,  Vol. 21, 1994, 321-35.

 

“Garder, Soigner, Innover?: Quelques questions sur le rôle des infirmiers et infirmières psychiatriques à la fin du XIXe siècle", Revue Soins Psychiatrie, No. 137, Mars 1992.

 

"Using Statistical Data to Understand a 19th Century French Asylum", in IASSIST Quarterly (International Association of Social Science Information Service and Technology) vol. 15, no. 2, 1991.

 

"Le traitement des alcooliques à la Belle Epoque", in Maladies, médecines et sociétés: Approaches historiques pour le présent.(Paris:L'Harmattan & Histoire au présent,1993), Vol. 1, pp. 218-223.

 

"Sainte-Anne: L'Asile et la communauté à la Belle Epoque, 1897-1907", SYNAPSE, Mars 1990 No. 62, pp. 58-62.

 

"Sources for research in the History of Alcohol in France since 1850", Social History of Alcohol Review, No. 19, Spring 1989, pp. 8-13.

 

"The French Temperance Movement and the Problem of Rural Alcoholism," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 13, 1985, 163-72.

 

"French Workers and the Temperance Movement, 1870-1914," International Review of Social History, Vol. XXV, 1980, Part I, 35-52.

 

"Temperance in France : The Curious Case of Abinsth," Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques, Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 1979, 301-319.

 

 "French Businessmen and the Channel Tunnel Project of 1913."  French Historical Studies.  IX, No. 4, Fall, 1976, 609-715.