Research Interests for Jocelyn H Olcott

I work on feminist history of modern Mexico. My first book, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, explores questions of gender and citizenship in the 1930s. I am currently working on two book-length projects: a history of the 1975 UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City (under contract with Oxford University Press), and a biography of the activist and folksinger Concha Michel. I am also developing a long-term project on the labor, political, and conceptual history of motherhood in twentieth-century Mexico.

Keywords:

Mexico, gender, feminism, labor

Current projects:

UN International Women's Year

Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Representative Publications

1. Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005), Duke University Press [abs]
2. Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano. eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (2006), Duke University Press
3. 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)
4. 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
5. Review Essay: Exploring Identity in Latin American History, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 30 no. 4 (2003), pp. 107-119