Women on the Verge of a Conference Showdown
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2025-06-01
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations International Year of Women (IWY) and for this interview, Kristen Ghodsee, author of <jats:italic>Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War</jats:italic> (Duke University Press, 2019) spoke with Jocelyn Olcott, author of <jats:italic>International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History</jats:italic> (Oxford University Press, 2017), about her book, the overall importance of IWY for global feminism, and future directions for further research. The interview was held over Zoom on 18 January 2024 and transcribed from their one-hour conversation. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. </jats:p>
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Ghodsee, Kristen, and Jocelyn Olcott (2025). Women on the Verge of a Conference Showdown. Aspasia, 19(1). pp. 1–15. 10.3167/asp.2025.190102 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33977.
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Jocelyn Olcott
Jocelyn Olcott is Professor of History; International Comparative Studies; and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her first book, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, explores questions of gender and citizenship in the 1930s. Her second book, International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History considers the history and legacies of the United Nation’s first world conference on women in 1975 in Mexico City (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her current project, a biography of the activist and folksinger Concha Michel, a one-time Communist who became an icon of maternalist feminism and a vocal advocate for recognizing the economic importance of subsistence labors, is under contract with Duke University Press. The book follows Michel's life story from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth to examine the ways that the concept, labor, and policies surrounding “motherhood” articulated with major shifts in political-economic thought. She has also embarked on an international, interdisciplinary project centered on rethinking the value of care labors broadly speaking, including not only dependent and household care but also, for example, environmental, community, cultural, and sexual care.
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