Prestwich, Pat
Dr. Patricia Prestwich
(Emerita Professor)
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
M.A., University of Toronto, 1965
B.A., University of Toronto, 1964
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-4569
| Expertise & Research Interests |
Modern France
History of Women
History of Alcohol (France)
History of Psychiatry (France)
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
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. “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 "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 "French Businessmen and the Channel Tunnel Project of 1913." French Historical Studies. IX, No. 4, Fall, 1976, 609-715. |