Books by Jane Juffer

Describes the contemporary cultural valorization of the figure of the single mother that has emerged as the unlikely heroic and seductive voice of the American family. Drawing on interviews with many single mothers, and policies on welfare, childcare, and child custody, this book shows the remarkable organizing skills of these new mothers.

Juffer (women's studies and English, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) takes a position not of liberation or transgression, but of domestication. She explores how women are bringing sex under their control for their own pleasure in everyday life through such means as women's literary erotica, mastur