Arlene Voski Avakian (born 1939) is an Armenian-American academic specializing in

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

and

food history Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition. It is considered distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history, ...

. Avakian came to the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

as a graduate student, helping to found the Women's Studies Program. She later joined the faculty at what grew into the university's Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She retired from UMass Amherst in 2011. Avakian's papers are held in the university's archives collection.Arlene Voski Avakian Papers, 1974-2010
Accessed 19 November 2014.

Works

* ''Lion woman's legacy: an Armenian-American memoir'', New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1992 * (ed.) ''Through the kitchen window: women explore the intimate meanings of food and cooking'', Boston: Beacon Press, 1997 * (with

Barbara Haber Barbara Haber is a culinary historian and speaker. She is the former book curator of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. Haber is credited with expanding the library's focus on women's social history to include food-related books and co ...

) ''From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies: critical perspectives on women and food'', Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005

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1939 births Living people Women's studies academics University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty American writers of Armenian descent American food writers Women food writers {{women's-studies-stub