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Publications of Jocelyn Olcott    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Book Chapters

  1. Olcott, J. "A happier marriage? Feminist history takes the transnational turn." Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives. Edited by Nadell, P; Haulman, K. December, 2013: 237-258.
  2. Olcott, J. "Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World 1776 to the Present on “Feminism, Women’s Rights” and “International Women’s Year, 1975." . Edited by Blum, Edward,. 2016.
  3. Olcott, J. "From the time of creation: Legacies and unfinished business from the first International Women's Year Conference." Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance around the World June, 2015: 21-31. [doi]
  4. Olcott, J. "Globalizing Sisterhood: International Women’s Year and the Limits of Identity Politics." Shock of the Global. Edited by Ferguson, N; Maier, C; Manela, E; Sargent, D. 2010. [catalog.php]
  5. Flecha, R; Dels Àngels Garcia, V; Olcott, J. "Mirrors, paintings, and romances." A Question of Discipline: Pedagogy, Power, and the Teaching of Cultural Studies January, 2019: 131-156. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Olcott, J. "Mueras y Mantanzas: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico." A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War. Edited by Grandin, G; Joseph, GM. 2010. [ViewProduct.php]
  7. Olcott, J. "Mujeres, historias y sociedades: Latinamérica siglos XVI al XXI." . Edited by Moroni Spencer Hernández de Olarte, ; Natalia Montes Marín,. 2016.
  8. Olcott, J. "Solidarity struggles: Transnational feminisms and Cold War lefts in the Global South." Leftist Internationalisms: a Transnational Political History January, 2023: 173-188.
  9. Olcott, J. "The Battle within the Home." Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History May, 2011: 194-210. [doi]  [abs]
  10. Olcott, J. "The Battle within the Home: Development Strategies and the Commodification of Caring Labors at the 1975 International Women’s Year Conference." Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History. Edited by Fink, L; al, E. 2011. [available here]
  11. Olcott, J. "The gender of modernization and the modernization of gender: Latin America and the Caribbean since 1914." A Companion to Global Gender History: Second Edition November, 2020: 561-576. [doi]  [abs]
  12. Olcott, J. "The Politics of Opportunity: Mexican Populism under Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría." Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics. Edited by Kampwirth, K. 2010. [html]
  13. Olcott, J. "Transnational Feminism: Event, Temporality, and Performance at the 1975 International Women’s Year Conference." Cultures in Motion. Edited by Rodgers, DT. 2013.

Journal Articles

  1. Olcott, J. "A plague of salaried marxists: Sexuality and subsistence in the revolutionary imaginary of concha michel." Journal of Contemporary History 52:4 (October, 2017): 980-998. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Olcott, J. "Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Performing Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City." Gender and History 22:3 (November, 2010): 733-754. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Olcott, J. "Decolonizing development: Women of the Global South campaigning in the latter years of the Cold War." Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes 57:1 (January, 2023): 197-208.
  4. Olcott, J. "Empires of Information: Media Strategies for 1975 International Women’s Year." Journal of Women’s History 24:4 (2012): 24-48. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Olcott, J. "Full-Rights Feminists and a History of the Care Crisis." International Review of Social History 67:3 (December, 2022): 519-523. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Olcott, J. "Introduction: Research and Rethinking the Labors of Love." Hispanic American Historical Review 91:1 (2011): 1-27. [doi]
  7. Olcott, J. "Lucy Delap. Feminisms: A Global History." American Historical Review 127:4 (December, 2022): 2018-2019. [doi]
  8. Olcott, J. "Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico’s Transition to Industrial Development." International Labor and Working-Class History 63:63 (December, 2003): 45-62. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  9. Olcott, J. "Public in a domestic sense: Sex work, nation-building, and class identification in modern Europe." American Historical Review 123:1 (February, 2018): 124-131. [doi]  [abs]
  10. Olcott, J. "‘Take Off That Streetwalker’s Dress’: Concha Michel and the Cultural Politics of Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico." Journal of Women’s History 21:3 (Fall, 2009): 36-59. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  11. Olcott, J. "’Worthy Wives and Mothers’: State-Sponsored Women’s Organizing in Postrevolutionary Mexico." The Journal of Women’s History 13:4 (Winter, 2002): 106-131. [repository], [doi]  [abs]

Book Reviews

  1. Francois, ME; Olcott JH, , "A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920". Journal of Latin American Studies  (2007).
  2. Olcott, JH, "Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times". Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe 14:2 (Fall, 2003).
  3. Olcott, J, "Empire in Exile: Transnationalizing the Cultural Production of Resistance". Diplomatic History  (2010).
  4. Olcott, J, "Heidi Tinsman, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States". Women’s Studies 45:4 (2016): 415-418. [doi]
  5. Olcott, J, "Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina (4 vols.)". Gender and History 21:1 (April, 2009): 220-22.
  6. Olcott, J, "Megan Threlkeld, Pan American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico, reviewed for Diplomatic History". Diplomatic History 41:3 (March, 2017): 659-662.
  7. Bliss, KE; Olcott JH, , "Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City". Social History 28:2 (May, 2003): 288-290.
  8. Olcott, JH, "Review Essay: Exploring Identity in Latin American History". Latin American Perspectives 30:4 (July, 2003): 107-119.
  9. Olcott, J, "Review of Joanne Hershfield, Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936.". American Historical Review 114:2 (April, 2009): 463–464-463–464.
  10. Olcott, J, "Review of Rosana Blanco Cano, Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado". Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe  (2013).
  11. Olcott, JH, "Review of Sex and Sexuality in Latin America, Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy, eds.". Hispanic American Historical Review 78:2 (May, 1998): 325-6.
  12. Olcott, J, "Review of Sonia Lipsett-Rivera, Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1865". American Historical Review  (2013).
  13. Olcott, J, "Review of Stephanie Mitchell and Patience A. Schell, eds., "The Women’s Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953"". Hispanic American Historical Review 89 (February, 2009).
  14. Olcott, J, "Review of Stephanie Smith, Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy". The Americas 66:3 (January, 2010): 401-402.
  15. Jocelyn Olcott, "Stephanie Mitchell and Patience A. Schell, eds., "The Women’s Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953"". Hispanic American Historical Review 89:1 (February, 2009).
  16. Olcott, JH, "The Passion of María Elena". The Americas 62:1 (July, 2005): 147-49.
  17. Grever, M; Waaldijk, B; Olcott JH, , "Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898". Labor History 47:1 (February, 2006): 138-40.
  18. Porter, SS; Olcott JH, , "Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931". Journal of Latin American Studies  (2005).

Edited Volumes

  1. Cano, G; Olcott, J; Vaughan, MK. Género, poder y politico en el México posrevolucionario. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009. [Detalle.aspx]
  2. Olcott, JH. International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History. Oxford University Press, July, 2017: 352 pages.  [abs]
  3. Olcott, J. Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Duke University Press, 2005. [ViewProduct.php]  [abs]
  4. Olcott, J; Vaughan, MK; Cano, G. Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico. Duke University Press, 2006. [ViewProduct.php]
  5. Flores, LA; Olcott, JH. The Academic's Handbook, Fourth Edition Revised and Expanded. , October, 2020: 376 pages.  [abs]

Work in Progress

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