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Jocelyn Olcott

Jocelyn Olcott

Professor of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
314 Classroom Bldg, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Office hours Wednesday, 3-5 p.m. or by appointment  

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Mary Kay Vaughan (1942–2024)

Journal article Hispanic American Historical Review · August 1, 2025 Full text Open Access Cite

Women on the Verge of a Conference Showdown

Journal article Aspasia · June 1, 2025 Abstract The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations International Year of Women (IWY) and for this interview, Kristen Ghodsee, author of Full text Open Access Cite

"Act Where There Are No Charters": The Labor and Politics of Care

Journal article Labor Studies in Working Class History · December 1, 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

Preliminary Notes

Journal article Azimuth Italy · January 1, 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

Decolonizing development: Women of the Global South campaigning in the latter years of the Cold War

Journal article Clio Histoire Femmes Et Societes · January 1, 2023 Cite

Full-Rights Feminists and a History of the Care Crisis

Journal article International Review of Social History · December 1, 2022 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 wo ... Full text Cite

Lucy Delap. Feminisms: A Global History

Journal article American Historical Review · December 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Public in a domestic sense: Sex work, nation-building, and class identification in modern Europe

Journal article American Historical Review · February 1, 2018 In their contributions to this AHR Forum, Joanne M. Ferraro, Emma Griffin, and Rebecca Jinks explore intimate and affective aspects of women's lives in three European settings over two centuries, taking on the formidable task of investigating the thoughts ... Full text Cite

A plague of salaried marxists: Sexuality and subsistence in the revolutionary imaginary of concha michel

Journal article Journal of Contemporary History · October 1, 2017 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 re ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Research and Rethinking the Labors of Love

Journal article Hispanic American Historical Review · 2011 Cite