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 recently published her book Performing Sex with SUNY Press (2011). Currently she has two book projects in press: Valerie Solanas (forthcoming with Feminist Press in April 2014), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, and The Moral Panics of Sexuality (forthcoming with Palgrave in December 2013), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex." 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:
New article in Radical Pedagogy about teaching Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto (with Jennifer Bertagni)
New MP article here about the hazards of Facebook, online gaming, & the erasure of women from cyberspace (with my awesome former student, Ashley Gohr)
Interview about menstrual sex on the radio show, "The Fairer Sex" (Melbourne, Australia), December 26, 2012. Podcast here.
More menstrual ranting about positive aspects of cycles, menstrual "outing," "feminine hygiene," museum omissions, iPhone apps, and Komodo dragons!
Click here to read my new interview in Left History with anarchist Ben Morea (from Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker) where he muses on radicalism and resistance
To read about the panics surrounding students growing out their body hair, check out the latest here in Feminism & Psychology.
To hear a podcast where I'm interviewed about the body hair assignment, click here (and then on "podcast")
Update: The body hair assignment recently won the Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 35
Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Lives has recently won some awards! Click here to buy it at Amazon.com.
Silver Medal--2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Women's Issues)
Honorable Mention--2011 Foreword Book of the Year (Women's Issues)
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 recently published her book Performing Sex with SUNY Press (2011). Currently she has two book projects in press: Valerie Solanas (forthcoming with Feminist Press in April 2014), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, and The Moral Panics of Sexuality (forthcoming with Palgrave in December 2013), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex." 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:
New article in Radical Pedagogy about teaching Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto (with Jennifer Bertagni)
New MP article here about the hazards of Facebook, online gaming, & the erasure of women from cyberspace (with my awesome former student, Ashley Gohr)
Interview about menstrual sex on the radio show, "The Fairer Sex" (Melbourne, Australia), December 26, 2012. Podcast here.
More menstrual ranting about positive aspects of cycles, menstrual "outing," "feminine hygiene," museum omissions, iPhone apps, and Komodo dragons!
Click here to read my new interview in Left History with anarchist Ben Morea (from Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker) where he muses on radicalism and resistance
To read about the panics surrounding students growing out their body hair, check out the latest here in Feminism & Psychology.
To hear a podcast where I'm interviewed about the body hair assignment, click here (and then on "podcast")
Update: The body hair assignment recently won the Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 35
Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Lives has recently won some awards! Click here to buy it at Amazon.com.
Silver Medal--2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Women's Issues)
Honorable Mention--2011 Foreword Book of the Year (Women's Issues)
coming soon... The Moral Panics of Sexuality (forthcoming December 2013 with Palgrave)
Link to Arizona State University faculty webpage
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