Janice Dzovinar Okoomian
Biographic Data
| ID | 2043903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Dzovinar Okoomian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice Dzovinar |
| FAMILY NAME | Okoomian |
| SIGNATURE | OKOOMIAN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhode Island College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Un)Making Gender, (Un)Making the Nation: Feminist Literary Approaches to the Armenian Genocide
Come, Dear Sister, Let's Unite: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective
This article examines the integration of feminist consciousness and diasporic Armenian identity through an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic study of Armenian Feminists, a Boston-based American Armenian collective founded in 1993. Drawing on the group's history and structure, participant observation, analysis of ritual practice, and focus group interviews conducted in 2024, the study foregrounds how group members, who came to feminist consciousn…
Cooking Pilaf with Words: Intersubjectivity and Feminism in the Armenian Transnation
Using original oral history research conducted in 2019, this study documents the voices, values, and priorities of feminists in the contemporary Republic of Armenia, revealing how interviewees came to feminist consciousness and how they conceptualized feminism. Interviewees articulated which feminist issues they believed to be most pressing in Armenia, including domestic violence, LGBTQIA rights, sexual education, militarism, and misogyny and hom…
Becoming White: Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies
This essay traces the historical process by which Armenians became legally white in the United States, demonstrating how arguments for Armenian whiteness were used as part of a larger strategy to exclude other Asian immigrants from nationalization in the early twentieth century. For late twentieth-century Armenian Americans, the conditions of racial whiteness include the erasure of Armenian history and the assimilation of Armenian bodies into Eur…
Becoming White: Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies
This essay traces the historical process by which Armenians became legally white in the United States, demonstrating how arguments for Armenian whiteness were used as part of a larger strategy to exclude other Asian immigrants from nationalization in the early twentieth century. For late twentieth-century Armenian Americans, the conditions of racial whiteness include the erasure of Armenian history and the assimilation of Armenian bodies into Eur…
Cooking Pilaf with Words: Intersubjectivity and Feminism in the Armenian Transnation
Using original oral history research conducted in 2019, this study documents the voices, values, and priorities of feminists in the contemporary Republic of Armenia, revealing how interviewees came to feminist consciousness and how they conceptualized feminism. Interviewees articulated which feminist issues they believed to be most pressing in Armenia, including domestic violence, LGBTQIA rights, sexual education, militarism, and misogyny and hom…
Becoming White: Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies
This essay traces the historical process by which Armenians became legally white in the United States, demonstrating how arguments for Armenian whiteness were used as part of a larger strategy to exclude other Asian immigrants from nationalization in the early twentieth century. For late twentieth-century Armenian Americans, the conditions of racial whiteness include the erasure of Armenian history and the assimilation of Armenian bodies into Eur…
Cooking Pilaf with Words: Intersubjectivity and Feminism in the Armenian Transnation
Using original oral history research conducted in 2019, this study documents the voices, values, and priorities of feminists in the contemporary Republic of Armenia, revealing how interviewees came to feminist consciousness and how they conceptualized feminism. Interviewees articulated which feminist issues they believed to be most pressing in Armenia, including domestic violence, LGBTQIA rights, sexual education, militarism, and misogyny and hom…
Come, Dear Sister, Let's Unite: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective
This article examines the integration of feminist consciousness and diasporic Armenian identity through an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic study of Armenian Feminists, a Boston-based American Armenian collective founded in 1993. Drawing on the group's history and structure, participant observation, analysis of ritual practice, and focus group interviews conducted in 2024, the study foregrounds how group members, who came to feminist consciousn…
Un)Making Gender, (Un)Making the Nation: Feminist Literary Approaches to the Armenian Genocide
Armenian (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · History (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Collective identity (1 works)