Emily J H Contois
Biographic Data
| ID | 644482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily J H Contois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Contois |
| SIGNATURE | CONTOIS E J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9914-0913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Health Freaks
Teaching food memoir
This essay offers a pedagogical reflection on the challenges and opportunities of teaching sensory skills and food writing in the university setting amidst AI advancements. As generative AI is increasingly used to supplement and supplant college writing, this essay reflects on one professor’s relieved surprise that her students continue to find food memoir a novel and worthwhile writing assignment. The essay highlights a critical tasting activity…
Fuelling masculinity
Real men don’t eat quiche, do they
Written for laughs in 1982, Bruce Feirstein’s Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All that Is Truly Masculine hit a real and raw nerve among American men. Beneath its jokes, the book documented a moment of 1980s gender crisis that pitted older constellations of masculinity against ‘the new man’. This article analyses how Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche and its cookbook sequel communicated this gender anxiety through food and the body specifically…
Digesting Femininities
Digesting Femininities: The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture, Natalie Jovanovski, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 213 p.. An article from journal Cuizine (Food, Feminism, and Fermentation), on Érudit
The spicy spectacular
“How are you with hot food?”So begins Hot Ones, a YouTube interview show launched in 2015. 1 In each weekly episode, host Sean Evans interviews a celebrity of varying renown—from Danny Brown and Jo
Taste of the Nation
Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America’s Food." Global Food History, 4(1), pp. 105–106
A. R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
Although often framed as ‘food fights’1 in today’s policy debates, school food disputes are not all that new, as Andrew Ruis reminds us in Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States. In six concise chapters, Ruis examines the many school meal programmes in place across the country prior to the passage of the National School Lunch Program in 1946. Chronicling in rich detail the origins, composition and chall…
A Taste of Power
Guilt-Free and Sinfully Delicious
This article uses critical discourse analysis to explore religiosity in two secular texts, the Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution (1992) and The South Beach Diet (2003). These diets appropriate the language and concepts of Christian Protestantism in order to construct a contemporary theology of weight loss dieting. Realized through a moralized chain of consumption, this theology is rooted in a dichotomy between “good” and “bad” foods, which culminate…
Toned Tummies and Bloated Bellies
Populating grocery store aisles with its easily recognizable green containers, Activia (a probiotic yogurt) claims to help regulate the digestive system in fourteen days. The commercial success of this functional food product reveals intersections among discourses of digestion, gendered eating, ideal bodies, nutrition, health, and food pharmaceuticals, as eaters navigate an increasingly medicalized foodscape. This paper draws from print and onlin…
Food and Fashion
Starring a size 16 actress in its leading role, the legal comedy drama Drop Dead Diva pushes the boundaries of mainstream media, which tend to favor the young, thin, and attractive. Discourse analysis of the program reveals that through food and fashion the show promotes size acceptance, but also includes fat loathing. The program also promotes a hegemonic construction of beauty and conventional femininity to which the white and wealthy main char…
Fuelling masculinity
Real men don’t eat quiche, do they
Written for laughs in 1982, Bruce Feirstein’s Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All that Is Truly Masculine hit a real and raw nerve among American men. Beneath its jokes, the book documented a moment of 1980s gender crisis that pitted older constellations of masculinity against ‘the new man’. This article analyses how Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche and its cookbook sequel communicated this gender anxiety through food and the body specifically…
The spicy spectacular
“How are you with hot food?”So begins Hot Ones, a YouTube interview show launched in 2015. 1 In each weekly episode, host Sean Evans interviews a celebrity of varying renown—from Danny Brown and Jo
Food and Fashion
Starring a size 16 actress in its leading role, the legal comedy drama Drop Dead Diva pushes the boundaries of mainstream media, which tend to favor the young, thin, and attractive. Discourse analysis of the program reveals that through food and fashion the show promotes size acceptance, but also includes fat loathing. The program also promotes a hegemonic construction of beauty and conventional femininity to which the white and wealthy main char…
Toned Tummies and Bloated Bellies
Populating grocery store aisles with its easily recognizable green containers, Activia (a probiotic yogurt) claims to help regulate the digestive system in fourteen days. The commercial success of this functional food product reveals intersections among discourses of digestion, gendered eating, ideal bodies, nutrition, health, and food pharmaceuticals, as eaters navigate an increasingly medicalized foodscape. This paper draws from print and onlin…
Guilt-Free and Sinfully Delicious
This article uses critical discourse analysis to explore religiosity in two secular texts, the Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution (1992) and The South Beach Diet (2003). These diets appropriate the language and concepts of Christian Protestantism in order to construct a contemporary theology of weight loss dieting. Realized through a moralized chain of consumption, this theology is rooted in a dichotomy between “good” and “bad” foods, which culminate…
A Taste of Power
Taste of the Nation
Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America’s Food." Global Food History, 4(1), pp. 105–106
A. R. Ruis, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
Although often framed as ‘food fights’1 in today’s policy debates, school food disputes are not all that new, as Andrew Ruis reminds us in Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States. In six concise chapters, Ruis examines the many school meal programmes in place across the country prior to the passage of the National School Lunch Program in 1946. Chronicling in rich detail the origins, composition and chall…
Digesting Femininities
Digesting Femininities: The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture, Natalie Jovanovski, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 213 p.. An article from journal Cuizine (Food, Feminism, and Fermentation), on Érudit
The spicy spectacular
“How are you with hot food?”So begins Hot Ones, a YouTube interview show launched in 2015. 1 In each weekly episode, host Sean Evans interviews a celebrity of varying renown—from Danny Brown and Jo
Real men don’t eat quiche, do they
Written for laughs in 1982, Bruce Feirstein’s Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: A Guidebook to All that Is Truly Masculine hit a real and raw nerve among American men. Beneath its jokes, the book documented a moment of 1980s gender crisis that pitted older constellations of masculinity against ‘the new man’. This article analyses how Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche and its cookbook sequel communicated this gender anxiety through food and the body specifically…
Fuelling masculinity
Health Freaks
Teaching food memoir
This essay offers a pedagogical reflection on the challenges and opportunities of teaching sensory skills and food writing in the university setting amidst AI advancements. As generative AI is increasingly used to supplement and supplant college writing, this essay reflects on one professor’s relieved surprise that her students continue to find food memoir a novel and worthwhile writing assignment. The essay highlights a critical tasting activity…
Culinary Culture and Tourism (9 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Food Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works)