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 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:
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!
This month: El Pais newspaper (Spain) published an interview with me about Valerie Solanas online. Spolia Magazine ran an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Valerie Solanas in their issue on Disappearance.
Last month: Two lovely, thoughtful reviews: one in LAMBDA Literary and another in Brooklyn Rail. Reflecting on Valerie and violence, Haley Mlotek tackles this difficult month of misogyny.
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!
New piece on the controversial language around "nonconsensual sex" in The Feminist Wire.
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, and Interview Magazine for the latest.
There's some good anticipation about the release of Valerie Solanas. Flavorwire just named it one of the 15 most anticipated books of 2014. Geek Unleashed named it one of their 10 most anticipated books of the year, and the Cleveland Examiner called it "must read" for 2014.
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 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:
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!
This month: El Pais newspaper (Spain) published an interview with me about Valerie Solanas online. Spolia Magazine ran an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Valerie Solanas in their issue on Disappearance.
Last month: Two lovely, thoughtful reviews: one in LAMBDA Literary and another in Brooklyn Rail. Reflecting on Valerie and violence, Haley Mlotek tackles this difficult month of misogyny.
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!
New piece on the controversial language around "nonconsensual sex" in The Feminist Wire.
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, and Interview Magazine for the latest.
There's some good anticipation about the release of Valerie Solanas. Flavorwire just named it one of the 15 most anticipated books of 2014. Geek Unleashed named it one of their 10 most anticipated books of the year, and the Cleveland Examiner called it "must read" for 2014.
