Published on April 20, 2021 at 9:00am Emily J.H. Contois, author of Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture (Photo credit: Courtesy of the author) Women are often the obvious subjects of inquiry for feminist writers. We wonder: How do women experience, cope with, and adapt to a patriarchal world? How is the “female body” othered, surveilled, and regulated? And while these are critical questions to ask, they position men as the invisible, unexamined other. With all eyes on women, attention is diverted away from the way men are hurt by the patriarchy they’re simultaneously upholding. In her debut book,