Professor Charles Sowerwine
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 8999 |
| Email: | c.sowerwine@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 321 West History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Biography
Charles Sowerwine studied history at Oberlin College and completed post-graduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of Paris before coming to Melbourne in 1974. He has written extensively in social and women's history, concentrating on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. His Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France since 1870 (Cambridge, 1982), was first published in France and was the first work published by an American (as he then was) by the prestigious Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. His article, “Workers and Women in France before 1914: The Debate over the Couriau Affair” (Journal of Modern History 55: 411-441 [1983]) was awarded the Koren Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies. With Claude Maignien, he wrote a biography of the pioneering socialist feminist, Dr Madeleine Pelletier (Paris, 1992), the first woman psychiatry intern in France. From 1996 through 2002, he held a joint appointment as Professor of Modern French History at the Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines. Of his recent work, he is most attached to The Wandering Scholar’s Guide to Melbourne in its new edition co-authored by Alice Garner (5th edn; Melbourne, 2007) and his history intended for the general reader, France since 1870: Culture, Politics, Society (Palgrave, 2007), of which a second edition is in preparation to appear next year.
Research
He is working on a study of nationalist and Europeanist discourse in twentieth-century France and, with Susan Foley of Victoria University of Wellington, on a project tentatively called “Passion and Politics: Love and the Republic in the Letters of Léon Gambetta and Léonie Léon, 1872-1882.”
Recent publications
- Sowerwine, C. and Alice Garner. 2007. The Wandering Scholar’s Guide to Melbourne. 5th edition. Melbourne: Marketing and Communications Office, The University of Melbourne
- Sowerwine, C. 2006. ““La politique, ‘cet élément dans lequel j’aurais voulu vivre’: l’exclusion des femmes est-elle inhérente au républicanisme de la Troisième République ? ” CLIO, Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés 24: 171-194
- Sowerwine, C. 2006. "Boulangism (1000 word), "Dreyfus Affair" (1500 words), “Léon Gambetta” (900 words; with Susan K. Foley), “Madeleine Pelletier” (750 words), “Syndicalism” (1500 words). In John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds, Europe 1789 to 1914: encyclopedia of the age of industry and empire. 5 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Sowerwine, C. 2004. “Equality and Difference in the Contemporary West: (1920-2003): North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand,” with Patricia Grimshaw, in Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner, eds, A Companion to Gender History (Malden: Blackwell Publishing), pp. 586-610
- Sowerwine, C. 2003. ”Woman’s Brain, Man’s Brain: feminism and anthropology in late nineteenth-century France,” Women’s History Review 12, no. 2: 311-329
- Sowerwine, C. 2002. “Aux origines du communisme à Oyonnax (Ain): Socialisme et Maison du Peuple,” in Jacques Girault, ed., Des communistes en France (années 1920-années 1960). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, pp. 131-162.
- Sowerwine, C. 2001. France since 1870: Culture, Politics, Society (Macmillan Palgrave, London). Pp. 505. ISBN 0-333-65836-1/-333-65837-X.