Publications of Jocelyn H Olcott

Books

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005), Duke University Press

Books in Progress

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, "The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History": The 1975 International Women's Year Conference and the Challenge of Transnational Feminism (under contract), Oxford University Press

Papers Published

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico's Transition to Industrial Development, International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 63 (December, 2003)
  2. Jocelyn Olcott, 'Worthy Wives and Mothers': State-Sponsored Women's Organizing in Postrevolutionary Mexico, The Journal of Women's History, vol. 13 no. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 106-131

Papers Accepted

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, “‘Take Off That Streetwalker’s Dress’: Concha Michel and the Cultural Politics of Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico”, Journal of Women’s History (forthcoming)
  2. Jocelyn Olcott, Mueras y Mantanzas: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico, in A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War, edited by Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds. (forthcoming), Duke University Press

Edited Volumes

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano. eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (2006), Duke University Press

Book Chapters

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, “Half the World Is Wasted: Development Strategies, Second-Wave Feminism, and the Commodification of Caring Labors.”, in Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: Labor History Across the Americas, edited by Leon Fink (2008) (In negotiations with Oxford University Press..)
  2. Jocelyn Olcott, “Globalizing Sisterhood: International Women’s Year and the Limits of Identity Politics”, in Shock of the Global, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (forthcoming), Harvard University Press
  3. Jocelyn Olcott, Sexing It Up: Mexican Populism under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, in Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics, edited by Karen Kampwirth (under contract), Pennsylvania State University Press

Book Reviews

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, Stephanie Mitchell and Patience A. Schell, eds., "The Women’s Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953", Hispanic American Historical Review (February, 2009)
  2. Marie Eileen Francois, A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920, Journal of Latin American Studies (forthcoming)
  3. Maria Grever and Berteke Waaldijk, Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898, Labor History, vol. 47 no. 1 (February, 2006), pp. 138-40
  4. The Passion of María Elena, The Americas, vol. 62 no. 1 (July, 2005), pp. 147-49
  5. Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931, Journal of Latin American Studies (forthcoming)
  6. Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times, edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, vol. 14 no. 2 (Fall, 2003)
  7. Review Essay: Exploring Identity in Latin American History, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 30 no. 4 (2003), pp. 107-119
  8. Katherine Elaine Bliss, Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City, Social History, vol. 28 no. 2 (May, 2003), pp. 288-290
  9. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America, Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy, eds., Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 78 no. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 325-6
  10. Jocelyn Olcott, Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy, eds., Sex and Sexuality in Latin America, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 78 no. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 325-26
  11. Stephanie Mitchell and Patience A. Schell, eds., The Women’s Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. forthcoming

Papers In Progress

  1. Jocelyn Olcott, “Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Performing Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City”, Gender and History (2008) (In preparation for special issue on gender and sexuality..)