International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event In History, with Jocelyn Olcott

Episode 32 · June 22nd, 2017 · 1 hr 6 mins

About this Episode

My guest is Jocelyn Olcott. She is Associate Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of, most recently, "International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History", which considers the history and legacies of the United Nation’s first world conference on women in 1975 in Mexico City (Oxford University Press, forthcoming Spring 2017).