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- Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture Emily J. H. Contois's provocative book begins with the dude himself-a man who retains a degree of masculine privilege but doesn't meet traditional standards of economic and social success or manly self-control. In the Great Recession's aftermath, dude masculinity collided with food producers and marketers desperate to find new customers. The result was a wave of new diet sodas and yogurts marketed with dude-friendly stereotypes, a transformation of food media, and weight loss programs just for guys. 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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About Food and Gender
This guide provides selective course-specific resources for MET ML706: Food and Gender.
Featured Article
- Ketchum, Alexandra D. "Cooking the Books: Feminist Restaurant Owners' Relationships with Banks, Loans and Taxes." Business History 64, no. 1 (2022): 1-27. (Taylor & Francis) This article examines how feminist restaurant and café owners in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and Canada challenged management hierarchies, serving practices, and typical restaurant structure.
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This Sept. 8, 2011 file photo shows Hasbro's newest version of their famous 'Easy Bake Oven' in Pawtucket, R.I. An eighth-grade girl from Garfield, N.J., has started an online petition asking Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to make the toy ovens in gender-neutral colors and feature boys on the package after she went to buy one for her little brother and discovered that it comes only in girly pink and purple, with girls and only girls on the box and in the commercials. (Associated Press Images Collection)
- Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window Associated Press Images Collection is a searchable collection of recent and historical photos from the Associated Press, plus AP graphics, articles, and brief sound clips.
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This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.