Diners, Dudes, and Diets
How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture
By Emily J. H. Contois
208 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 21 halftones, notes, bibl
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6074-5
Published: November 2020 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6073-8
Published: November 2020 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6075-2
Published: October 2020
Studies in United States Culture
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In a work brimming with fresh insights about contemporary American food media and culture, Contois shows how the gendered world of food production and consumption has influenced the way we eat and how food itself is central to the contest over our identities.
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Emily J. H. Contois is assistant professor of media studies at the University of Tulsa.
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"A fascinating work of cultural studies that makes evident the continued power and threat of explicitly gendered food production and consumption in the 21st century. Recommended broadly for students and scholars of fields related to gender, culture, and consumption."--Library Journal
"Contois has demonstrated that there is much fertile ground for considering how, why, and where the trope of 'the dude' functions and the arguments remain engaging throughout the entirety of Diners, Dudes, and Diets. She makes a significant contribution to food studies, gender studies, and cultural studies by deftly weaving an analysis of gendered power dynamics with observations of race, class, sexuality, age, and disability at important consumer culture sites."--Kathleen LeBesco, coeditor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture
"Contois’s focus on 'dude masculinity' is original and will make an important contribution to the fields of food studies and gender studies insofar as it complicates our understanding of the gendering of food--its production, distribution, and consumption--food media, and cultural narratives around the idealized male and female body and dieting."--Peter Naccarato, coeditor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture