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, United Nations, transnational history

Current projects:

UN International Women's Year

Concha Michel

Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Representative Publications

1. Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php] [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 [ViewProduct.php]
3. Jocelyn Olcott, “‘Take Off That Streetwalker’s Dress’: Concha Michel and the Cultural Politics of Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico”, Journal of Women’s History, vol. 21 no. 3 (Fall, 2009), pp. 36-59
4. 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, vol. 22 no. 3 (November, 2010), pp. 733-754
5. 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 (2010), Harvard University Press [catalog.php]
6. 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. (2010), Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php]
7. Jocelyn Olcott, “The Politics of Opportunity: Mexican Populism under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría”, in Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics, edited by Karen Kampwirth (2010), Pennsylvania State University Press [html]
8. Jocelyn Olcott, “The Battle within the Home: Development Strategies and the Commodification of Caring Labors at the 1975 International Women’s Year Conference”, in Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History, edited by Leon Fink, et al. (2011), Oxford University Press [available here]