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," Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood (SUNY Press, 2016), a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance, and Firebrand Feminism (University of Washington Press, 2018), a book about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice. She has also co-edited two volumes: The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), a collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Transforming Contagion (Rutgers University Press, 2018), a collection about the dangers and subversive potential of contagion. Her current projects include Burn it Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution and/or Apocalypse, a collection of historical and contemporary feminist manifestos (Verso), and Notes from the Edge, a book on sex, bodies, and madness (Routledge). 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:
Book launch/reading for Firebrand Feminism will be Thursday, April 26th at 7:00 PM at Tempe Changing Hands bookstore (6428 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ). Join us! Details are here.
Firebrand Feminism is due out May 2, 2018! To pre-order on Amazon (and see the cover), check out this link.
Early reviews of the book:
"At a time when feminism would prefer to forget about its radical past, Breanne Fahs does the hard work of dragging it back out from the shadows. Her writing remembers forgotten and neglected women, and their ideas for a wild transformation of society, and it is increasingly vital. Firebrand Feminism is no nostalgia tour, it is a white-hot reminder that we can and should and will change the world. "―Jessa Crispin, author of The Dead Ladies Project
"Makes the argument that contemporary feminism needs a reinfusion of the 'firebrand feminism' epitomized by these women and early radical feminism."―Jane Caputi, author of Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
"Just the book I've been looking for to supplement the manifestos, tracts, and other writings produced during the heyday of the Women's Liberation Movement."―Eileen Boris, professor of feminist studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Firebrand Feminism is a beacon for our troubled times. Fahs situates the history of radical feminism in the lived experiences of its foremothers, weaving lively personal accounts with sharp feminist analysis of the place of 'radical' inside past, present, and future feminisms. Wrestling with vexed issues, such as differences among women, Fahs presents a nuanced portrait of a movement whose most enduring legacies - roots and rage - offer a messy but hopeful toolkit."--Monica J. Casper, professor of gender and women's studies, University of Arizona
If you're curious about the real story of Valerie Solanas (who was played by Lena Dunham in American Horror Story this season), read this.
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 book, Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance, 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:
Women's emotional labor in their sexual relationships
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," Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood (SUNY Press, 2016), a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance, and Firebrand Feminism (University of Washington Press, 2018), a book about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice. She has also co-edited two volumes: The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), a collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Transforming Contagion (Rutgers University Press, 2018), a collection about the dangers and subversive potential of contagion. Her current projects include Burn it Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution and/or Apocalypse, a collection of historical and contemporary feminist manifestos (Verso), and Notes from the Edge, a book on sex, bodies, and madness (Routledge). 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:
Book launch/reading for Firebrand Feminism will be Thursday, April 26th at 7:00 PM at Tempe Changing Hands bookstore (6428 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ). Join us! Details are here.
Firebrand Feminism is due out May 2, 2018! To pre-order on Amazon (and see the cover), check out this link.
Early reviews of the book:
"At a time when feminism would prefer to forget about its radical past, Breanne Fahs does the hard work of dragging it back out from the shadows. Her writing remembers forgotten and neglected women, and their ideas for a wild transformation of society, and it is increasingly vital. Firebrand Feminism is no nostalgia tour, it is a white-hot reminder that we can and should and will change the world. "―Jessa Crispin, author of The Dead Ladies Project
"Makes the argument that contemporary feminism needs a reinfusion of the 'firebrand feminism' epitomized by these women and early radical feminism."―Jane Caputi, author of Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
"Just the book I've been looking for to supplement the manifestos, tracts, and other writings produced during the heyday of the Women's Liberation Movement."―Eileen Boris, professor of feminist studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Firebrand Feminism is a beacon for our troubled times. Fahs situates the history of radical feminism in the lived experiences of its foremothers, weaving lively personal accounts with sharp feminist analysis of the place of 'radical' inside past, present, and future feminisms. Wrestling with vexed issues, such as differences among women, Fahs presents a nuanced portrait of a movement whose most enduring legacies - roots and rage - offer a messy but hopeful toolkit."--Monica J. Casper, professor of gender and women's studies, University of Arizona
If you're curious about the real story of Valerie Solanas (who was played by Lena Dunham in American Horror Story this season), read this.
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 book, Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance, 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:
Women's emotional labor in their sexual relationships
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.
