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In Millennial Feminism at Work, volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of their feminist studies programs in their chosen career paths. The result is a dynamic collection of voices, shaking up preconceived ideas and showing the positive influence of gender and sexuality studies on individuals at work.Encompassing five areas¿corporate, education, nonprofit, medical, a...

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How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural productionToday, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes, songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children's television programming has provided...

Jane Juffer is Professor in the Department of English and the Program of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of three books: Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. Midwest (2013), Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual (NYU Press, 2006), and At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life (NYU Press, 1998).

How migration - especially by Latinos - can create new forms of intimacy across cultural, religious, and ethnic lines

How migration - especially by Latinos - can create new forms of intimacy across cultural, religious, and ethnic lines

Over 25 years after the start of the feminist sex wars, pornography remains a flashpoint issue. Are women victims or agents? Over the course of these same 25 years, there has been a proliferation of sexually explicit materials geared toward women. Scholar Jane Juffer maintains that we need to stop obsessing over pornography's transgressive aspects and focus on its place in women's everyday lives.

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Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work policies, often hailed as the new spokesperson for hard work and self-sufficiency. A dozen years after Dan Quayle denounced the television character Murphy Brown for making the decision to become a single mother "just another lifestyle choice, " President George W. Bush applauded single mothers for ...

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The Last Frontier explores the effects of neoliberal policies on the U.S.-Mexico border and contends that U.S. policies to curtail immigration and drug trafficking along the Mexican border are ineffective.