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, a group that engages students and faculty to fuse activism and rabble-rousing scholarship, and she also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
Read my interview about Valerie with the New York Times here!
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!
Upcoming reading in Chicago, IL on Friday, May 2nd (7pm) at Powells Books (1218 S. Halsted)--
check out the FB event page and the poster!
Upcoming reading in San Francisco, CA on Monday, May 19th (with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz) at Modern Times Bookstore (2919 24th St). Roxanne will read from Outlaw Woman and I'll read from Valerie Solanas; then we'll chat together about radical women!
Avital Ronell, Lisa Duggan, Karen Finley and I just did a public discussion at NYU called "Feminist rage: A discussion about Valerie Solanas" on Friday, April 11th in NYC. Podcast to follow soon!
Interviews and reviews about Valerie Solanas are pouring in. Check out the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, Out Magazine, Dame Magazine, After Ellen, 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, a group that engages students and faculty to fuse activism and rabble-rousing scholarship, and she also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.
News:
Read my interview about Valerie with the New York Times here!
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!
Upcoming reading in Chicago, IL on Friday, May 2nd (7pm) at Powells Books (1218 S. Halsted)--
check out the FB event page and the poster!
Upcoming reading in San Francisco, CA on Monday, May 19th (with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz) at Modern Times Bookstore (2919 24th St). Roxanne will read from Outlaw Woman and I'll read from Valerie Solanas; then we'll chat together about radical women!
Avital Ronell, Lisa Duggan, Karen Finley and I just did a public discussion at NYU called "Feminist rage: A discussion about Valerie Solanas" on Friday, April 11th in NYC. Podcast to follow soon!
Interviews and reviews about Valerie Solanas are pouring in. Check out the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, Out Magazine, Dame Magazine, After Ellen, 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.
Link to Arizona State University faculty webpage
New or existing clients? Click here!
Want more information about the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group (FROGS)? Click here.
New or existing clients? Click here!
Want more information about the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group (FROGS)? Click here.
