Breanne Fahs
associate professor of women & gender studies
writer, clinical psychologist
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 also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
My new book about Valerie Solanas, to be released in April 2014, is getting some good pre-press! 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 2013. Some pre-press:
"Breanne Fahs delivers the crucial backstory behind the deadly yet relevant aims of premier cultural deviant, Valerie Solanas, whose often indefensible edges, war cries, logic of injury, continue to haunt our era of desperate justice." —Avital Ronell
“Finally, a biography of Valerie Solanas that does justice to her brilliant SCUM Manifesto and tragic life. In this narrative, Andy Warhol no longer defines who Valerie was. Breanne Fahs has written a compelling masterpiece sure to become a classic.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman
"Rather than focusing on the Warhol shooting, Fahs gives a refreshing degree of weight to not only SCUM Manifesto—and its contribution to the birth of radical feminism—but also to Solanas’s earlier writings and creative pursuits, such as her playwriting and attempts at publishing in periodicals...Fahs ably fills a notable gap in feminist history with this accessible volume." --Publisher's Weekly
I'll be doing a reading on it with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Boston on March 30th at 4:00pm at the radical bookstore, the Lucy Parsons Center. I'll also be at Bluestockings bookstore in NYC April 10th. Come on by!
The special issue of Trivia Voices that Lisa Jean Moore and I edited called "Animal Instincts" is now available! Read the full issue here, and my introduction to the special issue here.
Check out the awesome student menstrual activist shirts, buttons, and other gear you can buy at their Etsy store! Please support them and spread the word!
Our book, The Moral Panics of Sexuality (with Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage) is making a splash.
Check out the Amazon page here for orders, reviews, & the cover design (thanks Rosemarie Padovano!).
Check out the table of contents here.
New article about how compulsory heterosexuality even infects women's use of sex toys. Click here to access.
To read about men's experiences with shaving their body hair, check out the latest here in Women's Studies.
For some press on the body hair assignment, click here.
associate professor of women & gender studies
writer, clinical psychologist
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 also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
My new book about Valerie Solanas, to be released in April 2014, is getting some good pre-press! 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 2013. Some pre-press:
"Breanne Fahs delivers the crucial backstory behind the deadly yet relevant aims of premier cultural deviant, Valerie Solanas, whose often indefensible edges, war cries, logic of injury, continue to haunt our era of desperate justice." —Avital Ronell
“Finally, a biography of Valerie Solanas that does justice to her brilliant SCUM Manifesto and tragic life. In this narrative, Andy Warhol no longer defines who Valerie was. Breanne Fahs has written a compelling masterpiece sure to become a classic.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman
"Rather than focusing on the Warhol shooting, Fahs gives a refreshing degree of weight to not only SCUM Manifesto—and its contribution to the birth of radical feminism—but also to Solanas’s earlier writings and creative pursuits, such as her playwriting and attempts at publishing in periodicals...Fahs ably fills a notable gap in feminist history with this accessible volume." --Publisher's Weekly
I'll be doing a reading on it with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Boston on March 30th at 4:00pm at the radical bookstore, the Lucy Parsons Center. I'll also be at Bluestockings bookstore in NYC April 10th. Come on by!
The special issue of Trivia Voices that Lisa Jean Moore and I edited called "Animal Instincts" is now available! Read the full issue here, and my introduction to the special issue here.
Check out the awesome student menstrual activist shirts, buttons, and other gear you can buy at their Etsy store! Please support them and spread the word!
Our book, The Moral Panics of Sexuality (with Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage) is making a splash.
Check out the Amazon page here for orders, reviews, & the cover design (thanks Rosemarie Padovano!).
Check out the table of contents here.
New article about how compulsory heterosexuality even infects women's use of sex toys. Click here to access.
To read about men's experiences with shaving their body hair, check out the latest here in Women's Studies.
For some press on the body hair assignment, click here.
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