Breanne Fahs
email: breanne.fahs@asu.edu
Breanne Fahs is 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 four 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," Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, and Out for Blood (SUNY Press, 2016), a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance. She currently has two book projects in press, due out in 2018: the first, Firebrand Feminism, is about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice (forthcoming with University of Washington Press) and the second, Transforming Contagion, is an edited collection about the dangers and subversive potential of contagion (forthcoming with Rutgers University Press). She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice where she specializes in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
Out for Blood won the 2017 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award. It was also recently nominated for the Foreword Indie Book prize.
My new book, Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance, is now in print! It is available for order on Amazon here.
To read an argument for the new/emerging field of critical sexuality studies, see my Annual Review of Sex Research article with Sara McClelland here.
Hot off the press:
What do women feel about hypothetically gaining 100 pounds?
What is "good sex"?
What kind of bodies do women dread?
Three new articles for your perusal:
Why do women believe in menstrual synchrony?
What drives pro-life activists?
How do researchers "find" sexual trauma and stories of first sex in women's narratives?
Valerie Solanas won the Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver Medal (Women's Issues),
and it was selected as a staff pick at The Paris Review.
Interview in BOMB Magazine about the Valerie Solanas book with Liz Kinnamon. Read my interview about Valerie Solanas in the New York Times here!
Interviews and reviews about Valerie Solanas: 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 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 four 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," Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, and Out for Blood (SUNY Press, 2016), a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance. She currently has two book projects in press, due out in 2018: the first, Firebrand Feminism, is about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice (forthcoming with University of Washington Press) and the second, Transforming Contagion, is an edited collection about the dangers and subversive potential of contagion (forthcoming with Rutgers University Press). She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice where she specializes in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
Out for Blood won the 2017 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award. It was also recently nominated for the Foreword Indie Book prize.
My new book, Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance, is now in print! It is available for order on Amazon here.
To read an argument for the new/emerging field of critical sexuality studies, see my Annual Review of Sex Research article with Sara McClelland here.
Hot off the press:
What do women feel about hypothetically gaining 100 pounds?
What is "good sex"?
What kind of bodies do women dread?
Three new articles for your perusal:
Why do women believe in menstrual synchrony?
What drives pro-life activists?
How do researchers "find" sexual trauma and stories of first sex in women's narratives?
Valerie Solanas won the Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver Medal (Women's Issues),
and it was selected as a staff pick at The Paris Review.
Interview in BOMB Magazine about the Valerie Solanas book with Liz Kinnamon. Read my interview about Valerie Solanas in the New York Times here!
Interviews and reviews about Valerie Solanas: 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.
