Breanne Fahs
email: breanne.fahs@asu.edu
Breanne Fahs is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism. She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored three books: Performing Sex (SUNY Press, 2011), an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas. She is currently working on two projects: a book of essays on menstruation, and a book about radical feminism/radical feminists and their relevance today. She is the director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
Upcoming reading with Michelle Tea in San Francisco (Thursday, March 5th, 6:00 PM). Details here!
We are planning a wildly interdisciplinary conference this fall called "Transforming Contagion" (10/23/15). Proposals are due April 30th! Click here for the call for papers or for more information email transformingcontagion@gmail.com
Interview in BOMB Magazine about the Valerie Solanas book with Liz Kinnamon!
Check out my new piece (with many FROGS) on the myths of menstrual synchrony as gendered solidarity.
Two new pieces about women's experiences with anal sex:
Feminism & Psychology (qualitative) and Gender Issues (quantitative)
Read my new article about contrasting women's best orgasm experiences and fake orgasm experiences in Culture, Health & Sexuality.
My new piece on body hair and the difficulty of women's agency about their bodies--check it out here.
Read my interview about Valerie Solanas in the New York Times here!
Lovely and thoughtful new review in Maximum RocknRoll.
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol) is now published!
Grab your copy at the Feminist Press website, Amazon, or at your local bookstore!
Interviews and reviews about Valerie Solanas are pouring in. Check out the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, The Brooklyn Rail, Out Magazine, LAMBDA Literary, Bookslut, Dame Magazine, After Ellen, The Awl, The Spectator, Maximum Rocknroll, and Interview Magazine for the latest.
email: breanne.fahs@asu.edu
Breanne Fahs is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism. She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored three books: Performing Sex (SUNY Press, 2011), an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas. She is currently working on two projects: a book of essays on menstruation, and a book about radical feminism/radical feminists and their relevance today. She is the director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
Upcoming reading with Michelle Tea in San Francisco (Thursday, March 5th, 6:00 PM). Details here!
We are planning a wildly interdisciplinary conference this fall called "Transforming Contagion" (10/23/15). Proposals are due April 30th! Click here for the call for papers or for more information email transformingcontagion@gmail.com
Interview in BOMB Magazine about the Valerie Solanas book with Liz Kinnamon!
Check out my new piece (with many FROGS) on the myths of menstrual synchrony as gendered solidarity.
Two new pieces about women's experiences with anal sex:
Feminism & Psychology (qualitative) and Gender Issues (quantitative)
Read my new article about contrasting women's best orgasm experiences and fake orgasm experiences in Culture, Health & Sexuality.
My new piece on body hair and the difficulty of women's agency about their bodies--check it out here.
Read my interview about Valerie Solanas in the New York Times here!
Lovely and thoughtful new review in Maximum RocknRoll.
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol) is now published!
Grab your copy at the Feminist Press website, Amazon, or at your local bookstore!
Interviews and reviews about Valerie Solanas are pouring in. Check out the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, The Brooklyn Rail, Out Magazine, LAMBDA Literary, Bookslut, Dame Magazine, After Ellen, The Awl, The Spectator, Maximum Rocknroll, and Interview Magazine for the latest.
