Jocelyn Olcott
Biographic Data
| ID | 520066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Olcott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Olcott |
| SIGNATURE | OLCOTT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1234-4882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mary Kay Vaughan (1942-2024)
Décoloniser le développement. Mobilisations de femmes des Suds dans la guerre froide tardive
La Décennie des Nations unies pour les femmes (1975‐1985) a coïncidé avec une brève période d’ouverture au cours de la guerre froide, lorsque les nations nouvellement décolonisées semblèrent avoir le dessus, ayant pris le contrôle de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies et de plusieurs agences de l’ONU, où elles promouvaient l’idée d’un nouvel ordre économique international. Cet article examine brièvement deux réseaux d’intellectuelles activist…
Full-Rights Feminists and a History of the Care Crisis
In 2018, the International Labour Organization published a study about the critical role of paid and unpaid care work for the health of society, the economy, and the planet and about the ways that care work is sustained through the super-exploitation of women, particularly migrant women and racially and ethnically marginalized women. Dorothy Sue Cobble's sweeping, carefully researched, and beautifully written study of full-rights feminists gives …
The Geopolitics of Women’s Issues: The “Private Sphere” Goes Global
Kristen Ghodsee’s revisionist take on the importance of socialist women’s activism was researched and written before the Covid-19 pandemic upended the world, but her observations seem even more compelling now. The Cold War rivalry of the late twentieth century fostered alliances between women from socialist countries and women from recently decolonized nations to advocate for a political economy that promoted social welfare and ecological sustain…
P eter G uardino . The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
As with most conflicts, the 1846–1848 war between the United States and Mexico went by different names depending on one’s perspective. What Mexicans often refer to as the War of U.S. Intervention or the War of North American Aggression, U.S. textbooks generally sanitize as the Mexican-American War. If the latter naturalizes a neatly drawn political boundary, the former conjures a narrative of U.S. imperial adventure—the sort of episode that rende…
Public in a Domestic Sense: Sex Work, Nation-Building, and Class Identification in Modern Europe
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
In June 1975, thousands of people converged on Mexico City for the United Nations (UN) conference celebrating International Women’s Year (IWY), the first of four UN women’s conferences that would eventually include those in Copenhagen (1980), Nairobi (1985), and Beijing (1995). Scholars and activists regard IWY as a watershed moment in transnational second wave feminism. Billed as the “greatest consciousness-raising event in history,” the IWY eve…
Challenges of Translation
Megan Threlkeld deftly opens her book, Pan American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico, with a vignette about a representative of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) encountering a barrage of criticism as she met with a group of students in Mexico City. They censured their U.S. visitors’ racism, condescension, and overblown claim to the hemispheric label “American.” The episode smartly distills some …
A Plague of Salaried Marxists’: Sexuality and Subsistence in the Revolutionary Imaginary of Concha Michel
This article examines work of Mexican singer and activist Concha Michel, particularly the pamphlet Marxistas y ‘marxistas’ that sealed her expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party (Partido Comunista de México, PCM). Michel wrote the pamphlet after her return from the Soviet Union, where her experiences only confirmed her belief that revolutionary governments in Mexico and the Soviet Union alike had failed to attend to the massive amounts of soc…
Rosa Blanco Cano: Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado: Cultura, género, etnia y nación más allá del projecto posrevolutionario. Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2012
Using the framework of “dissident bodies,” Rosa Blanco Cano explores the ways that contemporary women artists have literally and metaphorically deployed their bodies to challenge received mythologies about monolithic nationalism, sanctified motherhood, and tradition-bound indignity
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera opens her exploration of space and embodiment in urban Mexico with the provocative observation that her Mexican friends and family contend that “many Mexican women sought out [domestic] abuse because it was proof of their husbands' or lovers' affection,” making them “eager victims” (p. ix). Convinced that neither her own encounters with women nor the documentary record on violence involving women sustains this belief, she set…
Empire in Exile: Transnationalizing the Cultural Production of Resistance
When I lived in Mexico City in 1998, my Mexican flat-mate asked me what, exactly, “Yankee” meant apart from gringo. I dutifully (and in the age before ready Internet access in Mexico) performed a little etymological sleuthing and reported back the word's suspected origins and different contextual meanings. He nodded and then explained, “I've just never heard it used alone—I thought yanqui imperialista was a compound word.” I laughed, then, when r…
Introduction: Researching and Rethinking the Labors of Love
This introduction situates the articles in this special issue within the broader United States and Latin American historiographies of reproductive labor-the unpaid "caring" work of childcare, housekeeping, food provision, and the maintenance of critical community networks. It explores the conceptual and methodological issues raised in studying labor that individual actors often performed in both public and private realms and in commodified and un…
A century of revolution: Insurgent and counterinsurgent violence during Latin America's long cold war
A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference
In a widely read memoir, a Bolivian union militant signals the moment of her alienation from the nongovernmental organisation tribune of the United Nations’ 1975 International Women's Year (IWY) conference in Mexico City by describing her dismay when she encountered a group of women clamouring for sexual rights, reiterating a persistent narrative about a trade‐off between sexual rights and other forms of social justice. Drawing on feminist perfor…
Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936
The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910 - 1953
Stephanie Mitchell and Patience Schell have produced a classroom-friendly volume that teachers in undergraduate and even high school classes will find extremely useful. Mitchell’s introduction offers a concise narrative of Mexico’s 1910 – 17 revolution and its immediate aftermath, which could easily be assigned in combination with one or more of the essays that follow. Each chapter contains the text of a primary document cited in the essay, creat…
Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico
piled a series of essays (investigations, thematic incursions) on women, gender, and the Mexican Revolution.This anthology touches on a wide range of themes: female colonels in the revolution, machismo applied with scissor snips in Mexico City, the cinematographic treatment of indigenous women, divorce in conservative circles, women's education, the construction of new families, labor-union life, rationalized sex, activism among women in Catholic…
The Passion of María Elena. Directed by Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. 76 min. Color VHS. $440 sale; $125 rental
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico's Transition to Industrial Development
In the 1930s, the Mexican federal government consolidated political control following the chaos of the revolution and developed strategies for industrial development and economic growth. In 1936, at the height of the Popular Front and amid unabashedly progressive declarations by Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, the Department of Labor ordered an investigation to insure the protection of women's and children's labor rights. The “new woman” in po…
Exploring Identity in Latin American History
The historiography of Latin America, which for decades centered on the twin cold-war concerns of revolution (and the repression thereof) and economic development, has within the past few years begun to explore questions of identity-the ways in which the ideologies and subjectivities of ordinary people have intersected with material conditions. In the Latin American context, analysis of social identities has centered primarily on class, ethnicity,…
Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender. To this end, the essays in the collection focus on the uncertain and contingent nature of sexu…
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Introduction: Researching and Rethinking the Labors of Love
This introduction situates the articles in this special issue within the broader United States and Latin American historiographies of reproductive labor-the unpaid "caring" work of childcare, housekeeping, food provision, and the maintenance of critical community networks. It explores the conceptual and methodological issues raised in studying labor that individual actors often performed in both public and private realms and in commodified and un…
A century of revolution: Insurgent and counterinsurgent violence during Latin America's long cold war
Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference
In a widely read memoir, a Bolivian union militant signals the moment of her alienation from the nongovernmental organisation tribune of the United Nations’ 1975 International Women's Year (IWY) conference in Mexico City by describing her dismay when she encountered a group of women clamouring for sexual rights, reiterating a persistent narrative about a trade‐off between sexual rights and other forms of social justice. Drawing on feminist perfor…
A Plague of Salaried Marxists’: Sexuality and Subsistence in the Revolutionary Imaginary of Concha Michel
This article examines work of Mexican singer and activist Concha Michel, particularly the pamphlet Marxistas y ‘marxistas’ that sealed her expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party (Partido Comunista de México, PCM). Michel wrote the pamphlet after her return from the Soviet Union, where her experiences only confirmed her belief that revolutionary governments in Mexico and the Soviet Union alike had failed to attend to the massive amounts of soc…
Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico's Transition to Industrial Development
In the 1930s, the Mexican federal government consolidated political control following the chaos of the revolution and developed strategies for industrial development and economic growth. In 1936, at the height of the Popular Front and amid unabashedly progressive declarations by Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, the Department of Labor ordered an investigation to insure the protection of women's and children's labor rights. The “new woman” in po…
Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender. To this end, the essays in the collection focus on the uncertain and contingent nature of sexu…
Miracle Workers: Gender and State Mediation among Textile and Garment Workers in Mexico's Transition to Industrial Development
In the 1930s, the Mexican federal government consolidated political control following the chaos of the revolution and developed strategies for industrial development and economic growth. In 1936, at the height of the Popular Front and amid unabashedly progressive declarations by Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, the Department of Labor ordered an investigation to insure the protection of women's and children's labor rights. The “new woman” in po…
Exploring Identity in Latin American History
The historiography of Latin America, which for decades centered on the twin cold-war concerns of revolution (and the repression thereof) and economic development, has within the past few years begun to explore questions of identity-the ways in which the ideologies and subjectivities of ordinary people have intersected with material conditions. In the Latin American context, analysis of social identities has centered primarily on class, ethnicity,…
The Passion of María Elena. Directed by Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. 76 min. Color VHS. $440 sale; $125 rental
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico
piled a series of essays (investigations, thematic incursions) on women, gender, and the Mexican Revolution.This anthology touches on a wide range of themes: female colonels in the revolution, machismo applied with scissor snips in Mexico City, the cinematographic treatment of indigenous women, divorce in conservative circles, women's education, the construction of new families, labor-union life, rationalized sex, activism among women in Catholic…
Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936
The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910 - 1953
Stephanie Mitchell and Patience Schell have produced a classroom-friendly volume that teachers in undergraduate and even high school classes will find extremely useful. Mitchell’s introduction offers a concise narrative of Mexico’s 1910 – 17 revolution and its immediate aftermath, which could easily be assigned in combination with one or more of the essays that follow. Each chapter contains the text of a primary document cited in the essay, creat…
A century of revolution: Insurgent and counterinsurgent violence during Latin America's long cold war
A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference
In a widely read memoir, a Bolivian union militant signals the moment of her alienation from the nongovernmental organisation tribune of the United Nations’ 1975 International Women's Year (IWY) conference in Mexico City by describing her dismay when she encountered a group of women clamouring for sexual rights, reiterating a persistent narrative about a trade‐off between sexual rights and other forms of social justice. Drawing on feminist perfor…
Empire in Exile: Transnationalizing the Cultural Production of Resistance
When I lived in Mexico City in 1998, my Mexican flat-mate asked me what, exactly, “Yankee” meant apart from gringo. I dutifully (and in the age before ready Internet access in Mexico) performed a little etymological sleuthing and reported back the word's suspected origins and different contextual meanings. He nodded and then explained, “I've just never heard it used alone—I thought yanqui imperialista was a compound word.” I laughed, then, when r…
Introduction: Researching and Rethinking the Labors of Love
This introduction situates the articles in this special issue within the broader United States and Latin American historiographies of reproductive labor-the unpaid "caring" work of childcare, housekeeping, food provision, and the maintenance of critical community networks. It explores the conceptual and methodological issues raised in studying labor that individual actors often performed in both public and private realms and in commodified and un…
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera opens her exploration of space and embodiment in urban Mexico with the provocative observation that her Mexican friends and family contend that “many Mexican women sought out [domestic] abuse because it was proof of their husbands' or lovers' affection,” making them “eager victims” (p. ix). Convinced that neither her own encounters with women nor the documentary record on violence involving women sustains this belief, she set…
Rosa Blanco Cano: Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado: Cultura, género, etnia y nación más allá del projecto posrevolutionario. Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2012
Using the framework of “dissident bodies,” Rosa Blanco Cano explores the ways that contemporary women artists have literally and metaphorically deployed their bodies to challenge received mythologies about monolithic nationalism, sanctified motherhood, and tradition-bound indignity
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
In June 1975, thousands of people converged on Mexico City for the United Nations (UN) conference celebrating International Women’s Year (IWY), the first of four UN women’s conferences that would eventually include those in Copenhagen (1980), Nairobi (1985), and Beijing (1995). Scholars and activists regard IWY as a watershed moment in transnational second wave feminism. Billed as the “greatest consciousness-raising event in history,” the IWY eve…
Challenges of Translation
Megan Threlkeld deftly opens her book, Pan American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico, with a vignette about a representative of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) encountering a barrage of criticism as she met with a group of students in Mexico City. They censured their U.S. visitors’ racism, condescension, and overblown claim to the hemispheric label “American.” The episode smartly distills some …
A Plague of Salaried Marxists’: Sexuality and Subsistence in the Revolutionary Imaginary of Concha Michel
This article examines work of Mexican singer and activist Concha Michel, particularly the pamphlet Marxistas y ‘marxistas’ that sealed her expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party (Partido Comunista de México, PCM). Michel wrote the pamphlet after her return from the Soviet Union, where her experiences only confirmed her belief that revolutionary governments in Mexico and the Soviet Union alike had failed to attend to the massive amounts of soc…
P eter G uardino . The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
As with most conflicts, the 1846–1848 war between the United States and Mexico went by different names depending on one’s perspective. What Mexicans often refer to as the War of U.S. Intervention or the War of North American Aggression, U.S. textbooks generally sanitize as the Mexican-American War. If the latter naturalizes a neatly drawn political boundary, the former conjures a narrative of U.S. imperial adventure—the sort of episode that rende…
Public in a Domestic Sense: Sex Work, Nation-Building, and Class Identification in Modern Europe
The Geopolitics of Women’s Issues: The “Private Sphere” Goes Global
Kristen Ghodsee’s revisionist take on the importance of socialist women’s activism was researched and written before the Covid-19 pandemic upended the world, but her observations seem even more compelling now. The Cold War rivalry of the late twentieth century fostered alliances between women from socialist countries and women from recently decolonized nations to advocate for a political economy that promoted social welfare and ecological sustain…
Full-Rights Feminists and a History of the Care Crisis
In 2018, the International Labour Organization published a study about the critical role of paid and unpaid care work for the health of society, the economy, and the planet and about the ways that care work is sustained through the super-exploitation of women, particularly migrant women and racially and ethnically marginalized women. Dorothy Sue Cobble's sweeping, carefully researched, and beautifully written study of full-rights feminists gives …
Décoloniser le développement. Mobilisations de femmes des Suds dans la guerre froide tardive
La Décennie des Nations unies pour les femmes (1975‐1985) a coïncidé avec une brève période d’ouverture au cours de la guerre froide, lorsque les nations nouvellement décolonisées semblèrent avoir le dessus, ayant pris le contrôle de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies et de plusieurs agences de l’ONU, où elles promouvaient l’idée d’un nouvel ordre économique international. Cet article examine brièvement deux réseaux d’intellectuelles activist…
Mary Kay Vaughan (1942-2024)
Political science (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Art (11 works) · History (9 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (9 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)