publications on women's sexuality:
Ciarelli, S., & Fahs, B. (2024). Period sex for queer cis women and queer individuals assigned female at birth: Navigating gender, power, and heteronormativity in sex during menstruation. Women's Reproductive Health, 11(1), 89-107. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2023) Who counts as a sexual partner? Women’s criteria for defining and sorting through their sexual histories. Psychology & Sexuality, 14(1), 190-202. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2022). “I just tell myself it’s okay”: Women’s narratives about sexual safety and how they assess risk for sexually-transmitted infections. Psychology and Sexuality, 13(3), 499-511. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2022). “He’s thinking about sex, I’m thinking about survival”: Women’s sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic. In I. Gammel & J. Wang (Eds.), Creative resilience and COVID 19: Figuring the everyday in a pandemic (pp. 70-81). New York: Routledge.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Refusals, reciprocity, and sexual labor: Women discuss negotiations around oral and anal sex with men. Sexuality & Culture, 25, 217-234. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Swank, E., & Shambe, A. (2020). “I just go with it”: Negotiating sexual desire discrepancies for women in partnered relationships. Sex Roles, 83, 226-239. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Plante, R., & McClelland, S.I. (2018). Working at the crossroads of pleasure and danger: Feminist perspectives on doing critical sexuality studies. Sexualities. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2017). Slippery desire: Women’s qualitative accounts of their vaginal lubrication and wetness. Feminism & Psychology, 27(3), 280-297. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Plante, R. (2017). On good sex and other dangerous ideas: Women narrate their empowered, fun, and joyous sexual encounters. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(1), 33-44. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2016). The other third shift? Women's emotion work in their sexual relationships. Feminist Formations, 28(3), 46-69. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & McClelland, S. I. (2016). When sex and power collide: An argument for critical sexuality studies. Annual Review of Sex Research, 53(4-5), 392-416. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Methodological mishaps and slippery subjects: Stories of first sex, oral sex, and sexual trauma in qualitative sex research. Qualitative Psychology, 3(2), 209-222. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Naming sexual trauma: On the political necessity of nuance in rape and sex offender discourses. In M. J. Casper & E. Wertheimer (Eds.), Critical trauma studies: Violence, conflict, and memory in everyday life (pp. 61-77). New York: New York University Press.
Fahs, B., & Munger, A. (2015). Friends with benefits? Gendered performances in women's casual sexual relationships. Personal Relationships, 22, 188-203. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Swank, E., & Clevenger, L. (2015). Troubling anal sex: Gender, power, and sexual compliance in heterosexual experiences of anal intercourse. Gender Issues, 32(1), 19-38. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Coming to power: Women’s fake orgasms and best orgasm experiences illuminate the failures of (hetero)sex and the pleasures of connection. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 16(8), 974-988. To access, click here.
Mtshali, M., & Fahs, B. (2014). Catherine Breillat's Romance and Anatomy of Hell: Subjectivity and the gendering of sexuality. Women: A Cultural Review, 25(2), 160-175. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Gonzalez, J. (2014). The front lines of the “back door”: Navigating (dis)engagement, coercion, and pleasure in women’s anal sex experiences. Feminism & Psychology, 24(4), 500-520. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). "Freedom to" and "freedom from": A new vision for sex positive politics. Sexualities, 17(3), 267-290. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Frank, E. (2014). Notes from the back room: Gender, power, and (in)visibility in women's experiences of masturbation. Journal of Sex Research, 51(3), 241-252. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank. E. (2013). Adventures with the "plastic man": Sex toys, compulsory heterosexuality, and the politics of women's pleasure. Sexuality & Culture, 17(4), 666-685. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Dudy, M. L., & Stage, S. (2013). Villains and Victims: Excavating the moral panics of sexuality. In B. Fahs, M. L. Dudy, & S. Stage (Eds.), The Moral Panics of Sexuality (pp. 1-23). London: Palgrave.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2011). Social identities as predictors of women's sexual satisfaction and sexual activity. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(5), 903-914. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Sexuality on the market: An Irigarayan analysis of female desire as commodity. In M. C. Rawlinson, S. L. Hom, & S. J. Khader (Eds.), Thinking with Irigaray (pp. 179-200). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Sex during menstruation: Race, sexual identity, and women's qualitative accounts of pleasure and disgust. Feminism & Psychology, 21(2), 155-178. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011) Sexual violence, disidentification, and long-term trauma recovery: A process-oriented case study analysis. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 20(5), 556-578. To access, click here.
Swank, E., Fahs, B., & Haywood, H. (2011). Evaluating Appalachian distinctiveness for gender expectations, sexual violence, and rape myths. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 59(1), 67-89. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2010). Daddy's little girls: On the perils of chastity clubs, purity balls, and ritualized abstinence. Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, 31(3), 116-142. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2009). Compulsory bisexuality? The challenges of modern sexual fluidity. Journal of Bisexuality, 9(3), 431-449. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2003). Analytic dualisms, stunted sexualities, and the "horrified gaze": Western (feminist) dialogues about Female Genital Mutilation. Michigan Feminist Studies, 17, 47-70. To access, click here.
publications on women's bodies:
Fahs, B., & Collins, M. (2024). “In the wardrobe of her royal daintiness”: A historical analysis of menstrual product advertisements from the 1920s to the 2020s. Women’s Reproductive Health, 11(4), 749-766. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2023). Psychological kinship between fat therapists and fat patients: Healing and solidarity around stigma, family relationships, and body image. Fat Studies, 12(2), 243-259. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Menstrual knowledge and understandings of normal and extreme bleeding: Overestimation of menstrual blood among college students. Women’s Reproductive Health, 8(2), 115-136. To access, click here.
Przybylo, E., & Fahs, B. (2021). Fatness, friendship, and “corpu-allyhood” strategems. Fat Studies, 10(3), 297-311. To access, click here.
Bobel, C., & Fahs, B. (2020). From bloodless respectability to radical menstrual embodiment: Shifting menstrual politics from private to public. Signs, 45(4), 955-983. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2019). Fat and furious: Interrogating fat phobia and nurturing resistance in medical framings of fat bodies. Women’s Reproductive Health, 6(4), 245-251. To access, click here.
Przybylo, E., & Fahs, B. (2018). Feels and flows: On the realness of menstrual pain and cripping menstrual chronicity. Feminist Formations, 30(1), 206-229. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2017). The dreaded body: Digust and the production of "appropriate" femininity. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(2), 184-196. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2017). Exploring stigma of "extreme" weight gain: The terror of fat possible selves in women's responses to hypothetically gaining one hundred pounds. Women's Studies International Forum, 61, 1-8. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Demystifying menstrual synchrony: Women's subjective beliefs about bleeding in tandem with other women. Women's Reproductive Health, 3(1), 1-15. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2015). The body in revolt: The impact and legacy of second wave corporeal embodiment. Journal of Social Issues, 71(2), 386-401. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2015). Unpacking embodiment and embodied resistance. In J. DeLamater & R. Plante (eds.), Handbook of Sexualities (pp. 149-167). New York: Springer. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Gonzalez, J., Coursey, R., & Robinson-Cestaro, S. (2014). Cycling together: Menstrual synchrony as a projection of gendered solidarity. Women's Reproductive Health, 1(2), 90-105. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Perilous patches and pitstaches: Imagined versus lived experiences of women's body hair growth. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 38(2), 167-180. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Genital panics: Constructing the vagina in women's qualitative narratives about pubic hair, menstrual sex, and vaginal self-image. Body Image, 11, 210-218. To access, click here.
Tolman, D., Bowman, C., & Fahs, B. (2013). Sexuality and embodiment. In D. Tolman, L. Diamond, J. Bauermeister, W. George, J. Pfaus, & M. Ward (Eds.), Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology, First Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
Fahs, B. (2013). Raising bloody hell: Inciting menstrual panics through campus and community activism. In B. Fahs, M. L. Dudy, & S. Stage (Eds.), The Moral Panics of Sexuality (pp. 77-91). London: Palgrave.
Fahs, B. (2013). Shaving it all off: Examining social norms of body hair among college men in a women's studies course. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42(5), 559-577. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Gohr, M. A. (2012). Superpatriarchy meets cyberfeminism: Facebook, online gaming, and the new social genocide. MP: An Online Feminist Journal, 3(6). To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). Breaking body hair boundaries: Classroom exercises for challenging social constructions of the body and sexuality. Feminism & Psychology, 22(4), 482-506. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Dreaded "Otherness": Heteronormative patrolling in women's body hair rebellions. Gender & Society, 25(4), 451-472. To access the article, click here. To hear the podcast about the article, click here.
Fahs, B., & Delgado, D. A. (2011). The specter of excess: Race, class, and gender in women's body hair narratives. In C. Bobel & S. Kwan (Eds.), Embodied resistance: Breaking the rules, challenging the norms (pp. 13-25). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. To access article, click here. To access reviews of the book, click here and here and here.
publications on feminist histories and radical pedagogy:
Fahs, B. (2024). The urgent need for radical feminism today. Signs, 49(2), 479-497. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank. E. (2020). Redefining the work of feminist praxis: Making space for a (rebellious) undergraduate feminist research group. Equity and Excellence in Education, 53(1-2), 244-258.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Sexualities in revolt: Teaching activism, manifesto writing, and anti-assimilationist politics to upper-division undergraduates. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 16(3), 375-393. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2019). Writing with blood: The transformative pedagogy of teaching students to write manifestos. Radical Teacher, 115, 33-38. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2019). Reinvigorating the traditions of second-wave radical feminism: Humor and satire as political work. Women’s Reproductive Health, 6(3), 157-160. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Spitfire and sass: Valerie Solanas’s “A Young Girl’s Primer” and the creative possibilities of a survival self. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 44(1-2), 255-267.
Fahs, B., & Karger, M. (2016). Women's studies as virus: Institutional feminism and the projection of danger. Generos: Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2015). The weight of trash: Teaching sustainability and ecofeminism by asking undergraduates to carry around their own garbage. Radical Teacher, 102, 30-34. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Bertagni, J. (2012). Up from SCUM: Radical feminist pedagogies and consciousness-raising in the classroom. Radical Pedagogy, 10(1). To access click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). Reading between the lines: Ben Morea on anarchy, radicalism, and resistance. Left History, 16(1), 37-53. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Ti-Grace Atkinson and the legacy of radical feminism. Feminist Studies, 37(3), 561-590. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2010). Radical refusals: On the anarchist politics of women choosing asexuality. Sexualities, 13(4), 445-461. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2008). The radical possibilities of Valerie Solanas. Feminist Studies, 34(3), 591-617. To access, click here.
publications on LGBT rights, queer/antiwar/BLM activism, and discrimination:
Fahs, B., Swank, E., & Mayon, M. (2024). Whose streets? Understanding sexual minority support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Sexuality, Gender & Policy, 7, 287-304. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2024). Sexual identities and political solidarities among cisgender women. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 28(1), 142-160. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2022). Sexual identities and reactions to Black Lives Matter. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 19, 1954-1967. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank. E. (2022). Friends or foes? U.S. women’s perceptions of racial justice and the Black Lives Matter protests during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 43(4), 446-462. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2022). I’ll take the check!: A longitudinal replication analysis of gender biases in bill placement from restaurant servers. Journal of Gender Studies, 31(3), 377-389. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Pray the gay will stay? Church shopping and religious gatekeeping around homosexuality in an audit study of Christian church officials. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8(1), 106-118. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2021). The coming out process for assigned-female-at-birth transgender and non-binary teenagers: Negotiating multiple identities, parental responses, and early transitions in three case studies. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 15(2), 146-167.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2019). The sexuality gap in protest behavior. Journal of Homosexuality, 66, 324-348. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2017). Understanding feminist activism among women: Resources, consciousness, and social networks. Socius, 3, 1-9. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2017). College students, sexualities, identities, and participation in political marches. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 14, 122-132. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2016). Resources, masculinities, and gender differences among pro-life activists. Sexuality & Culture, 20(2), 277-294. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2014). Predictors of feminist activism among social work students in the United States. Social Work Education, 33(4), 519-532.
Swank E., & Fahs, B. (2013). Predicting electoral activism among gays and lesbians in the United States. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(7), 1382-1393. To access, click here.
Swank, E., Fahs, B., & Frost, D. (2013). Region, social identities, and disclosure practices as predictors of heterosexist discrimination against sexual minorities in the United States. Sociological Inquiry, 83(2), 238-258. To access click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2013). An intersectional analysis of gender and race for sexual minorities who engage in gay and lesbian rights activism. Sex Roles, 68, 660-674. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2013). Why do social work students engage in lesbian and gay rights activism? Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(1), 91-106. To access, click here.
Swank, E., Frost, D. M., & Fahs, B. (2012). Rural location and exposure to minority stress among sexual minorities. Psychology & Sexuality, 3(3), 226-243. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2012). Resources, social networks, and collective action frames of college students who join the gay and lesbian rights movement. Journal of Homosexuality, 59(1), 67-89. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2011). Students for peace: Contextual and framing motivations of antiwar activism. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 38(2), 111-136. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2011). Pathways to political activism among Americans who have same-sex sexual contact. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8(2) 126-138. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2007). Second shifts and political awakenings: Divorce and the political socialization of middle-aged women. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 47(3/4), 43-66. To access, click here.
essays, rants, reviews, etc.:
Fahs, B. (2016). Imagining differently: Revisioning radical feminism. Trivia. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). The politics of turning rape into "nonconsensual sex." The Feminist Wire. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Two or three things I know for sure (about menstruation). Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Traces of feminist rage. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Our animal selves: Introduction to the special issue "Animal Instincts." Trivia. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Diving (back) into the wreck: Finding, transforming, and reimagining women's studies and sexuality studies in the academy. Feminist Studies, 39(2), 496-501. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). On (bull)shit and menstrual solidarity. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). A matter of semantics. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Menstruation as a sensory and aesthetic experience. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). In praise of cycles. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Menstruation according to Apple. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Death to the menstruators!...by dragon! Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). "Menstrual outing," menstrual panics. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). "Feminine hygiene" and the ultimate double standard. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). Collateral damage: Throwing menstruation out of the museum. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). On "liberated sex" and other myths. The Feminist Wire. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2009). Lifestyle drugs and the new wave of pharmaceutical personality sculpting. The Public Sphere, 6. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2009). Is the selling of virginity a feminist act? The Public Sphere, 3. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2008). Would you prefer gay marriage or no marriage? The Public Sphere, 2. To access, click here.
Ciarelli, S., & Fahs, B. (2024). Period sex for queer cis women and queer individuals assigned female at birth: Navigating gender, power, and heteronormativity in sex during menstruation. Women's Reproductive Health, 11(1), 89-107. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2023) Who counts as a sexual partner? Women’s criteria for defining and sorting through their sexual histories. Psychology & Sexuality, 14(1), 190-202. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2022). “I just tell myself it’s okay”: Women’s narratives about sexual safety and how they assess risk for sexually-transmitted infections. Psychology and Sexuality, 13(3), 499-511. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2022). “He’s thinking about sex, I’m thinking about survival”: Women’s sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic. In I. Gammel & J. Wang (Eds.), Creative resilience and COVID 19: Figuring the everyday in a pandemic (pp. 70-81). New York: Routledge.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Refusals, reciprocity, and sexual labor: Women discuss negotiations around oral and anal sex with men. Sexuality & Culture, 25, 217-234. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Swank, E., & Shambe, A. (2020). “I just go with it”: Negotiating sexual desire discrepancies for women in partnered relationships. Sex Roles, 83, 226-239. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Plante, R., & McClelland, S.I. (2018). Working at the crossroads of pleasure and danger: Feminist perspectives on doing critical sexuality studies. Sexualities. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2017). Slippery desire: Women’s qualitative accounts of their vaginal lubrication and wetness. Feminism & Psychology, 27(3), 280-297. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Plante, R. (2017). On good sex and other dangerous ideas: Women narrate their empowered, fun, and joyous sexual encounters. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(1), 33-44. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2016). The other third shift? Women's emotion work in their sexual relationships. Feminist Formations, 28(3), 46-69. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & McClelland, S. I. (2016). When sex and power collide: An argument for critical sexuality studies. Annual Review of Sex Research, 53(4-5), 392-416. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Methodological mishaps and slippery subjects: Stories of first sex, oral sex, and sexual trauma in qualitative sex research. Qualitative Psychology, 3(2), 209-222. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Naming sexual trauma: On the political necessity of nuance in rape and sex offender discourses. In M. J. Casper & E. Wertheimer (Eds.), Critical trauma studies: Violence, conflict, and memory in everyday life (pp. 61-77). New York: New York University Press.
Fahs, B., & Munger, A. (2015). Friends with benefits? Gendered performances in women's casual sexual relationships. Personal Relationships, 22, 188-203. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Swank, E., & Clevenger, L. (2015). Troubling anal sex: Gender, power, and sexual compliance in heterosexual experiences of anal intercourse. Gender Issues, 32(1), 19-38. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Coming to power: Women’s fake orgasms and best orgasm experiences illuminate the failures of (hetero)sex and the pleasures of connection. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 16(8), 974-988. To access, click here.
Mtshali, M., & Fahs, B. (2014). Catherine Breillat's Romance and Anatomy of Hell: Subjectivity and the gendering of sexuality. Women: A Cultural Review, 25(2), 160-175. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Gonzalez, J. (2014). The front lines of the “back door”: Navigating (dis)engagement, coercion, and pleasure in women’s anal sex experiences. Feminism & Psychology, 24(4), 500-520. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). "Freedom to" and "freedom from": A new vision for sex positive politics. Sexualities, 17(3), 267-290. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Frank, E. (2014). Notes from the back room: Gender, power, and (in)visibility in women's experiences of masturbation. Journal of Sex Research, 51(3), 241-252. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank. E. (2013). Adventures with the "plastic man": Sex toys, compulsory heterosexuality, and the politics of women's pleasure. Sexuality & Culture, 17(4), 666-685. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Dudy, M. L., & Stage, S. (2013). Villains and Victims: Excavating the moral panics of sexuality. In B. Fahs, M. L. Dudy, & S. Stage (Eds.), The Moral Panics of Sexuality (pp. 1-23). London: Palgrave.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2011). Social identities as predictors of women's sexual satisfaction and sexual activity. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(5), 903-914. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Sexuality on the market: An Irigarayan analysis of female desire as commodity. In M. C. Rawlinson, S. L. Hom, & S. J. Khader (Eds.), Thinking with Irigaray (pp. 179-200). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Sex during menstruation: Race, sexual identity, and women's qualitative accounts of pleasure and disgust. Feminism & Psychology, 21(2), 155-178. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011) Sexual violence, disidentification, and long-term trauma recovery: A process-oriented case study analysis. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 20(5), 556-578. To access, click here.
Swank, E., Fahs, B., & Haywood, H. (2011). Evaluating Appalachian distinctiveness for gender expectations, sexual violence, and rape myths. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 59(1), 67-89. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2010). Daddy's little girls: On the perils of chastity clubs, purity balls, and ritualized abstinence. Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, 31(3), 116-142. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2009). Compulsory bisexuality? The challenges of modern sexual fluidity. Journal of Bisexuality, 9(3), 431-449. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2003). Analytic dualisms, stunted sexualities, and the "horrified gaze": Western (feminist) dialogues about Female Genital Mutilation. Michigan Feminist Studies, 17, 47-70. To access, click here.
publications on women's bodies:
Fahs, B., & Collins, M. (2024). “In the wardrobe of her royal daintiness”: A historical analysis of menstrual product advertisements from the 1920s to the 2020s. Women’s Reproductive Health, 11(4), 749-766. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2023). Psychological kinship between fat therapists and fat patients: Healing and solidarity around stigma, family relationships, and body image. Fat Studies, 12(2), 243-259. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Menstrual knowledge and understandings of normal and extreme bleeding: Overestimation of menstrual blood among college students. Women’s Reproductive Health, 8(2), 115-136. To access, click here.
Przybylo, E., & Fahs, B. (2021). Fatness, friendship, and “corpu-allyhood” strategems. Fat Studies, 10(3), 297-311. To access, click here.
Bobel, C., & Fahs, B. (2020). From bloodless respectability to radical menstrual embodiment: Shifting menstrual politics from private to public. Signs, 45(4), 955-983. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2019). Fat and furious: Interrogating fat phobia and nurturing resistance in medical framings of fat bodies. Women’s Reproductive Health, 6(4), 245-251. To access, click here.
Przybylo, E., & Fahs, B. (2018). Feels and flows: On the realness of menstrual pain and cripping menstrual chronicity. Feminist Formations, 30(1), 206-229. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2017). The dreaded body: Digust and the production of "appropriate" femininity. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(2), 184-196. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2017). Exploring stigma of "extreme" weight gain: The terror of fat possible selves in women's responses to hypothetically gaining one hundred pounds. Women's Studies International Forum, 61, 1-8. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Demystifying menstrual synchrony: Women's subjective beliefs about bleeding in tandem with other women. Women's Reproductive Health, 3(1), 1-15. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2015). The body in revolt: The impact and legacy of second wave corporeal embodiment. Journal of Social Issues, 71(2), 386-401. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2015). Unpacking embodiment and embodied resistance. In J. DeLamater & R. Plante (eds.), Handbook of Sexualities (pp. 149-167). New York: Springer. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., Gonzalez, J., Coursey, R., & Robinson-Cestaro, S. (2014). Cycling together: Menstrual synchrony as a projection of gendered solidarity. Women's Reproductive Health, 1(2), 90-105. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Perilous patches and pitstaches: Imagined versus lived experiences of women's body hair growth. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 38(2), 167-180. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Genital panics: Constructing the vagina in women's qualitative narratives about pubic hair, menstrual sex, and vaginal self-image. Body Image, 11, 210-218. To access, click here.
Tolman, D., Bowman, C., & Fahs, B. (2013). Sexuality and embodiment. In D. Tolman, L. Diamond, J. Bauermeister, W. George, J. Pfaus, & M. Ward (Eds.), Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology, First Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
Fahs, B. (2013). Raising bloody hell: Inciting menstrual panics through campus and community activism. In B. Fahs, M. L. Dudy, & S. Stage (Eds.), The Moral Panics of Sexuality (pp. 77-91). London: Palgrave.
Fahs, B. (2013). Shaving it all off: Examining social norms of body hair among college men in a women's studies course. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42(5), 559-577. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Gohr, M. A. (2012). Superpatriarchy meets cyberfeminism: Facebook, online gaming, and the new social genocide. MP: An Online Feminist Journal, 3(6). To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). Breaking body hair boundaries: Classroom exercises for challenging social constructions of the body and sexuality. Feminism & Psychology, 22(4), 482-506. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Dreaded "Otherness": Heteronormative patrolling in women's body hair rebellions. Gender & Society, 25(4), 451-472. To access the article, click here. To hear the podcast about the article, click here.
Fahs, B., & Delgado, D. A. (2011). The specter of excess: Race, class, and gender in women's body hair narratives. In C. Bobel & S. Kwan (Eds.), Embodied resistance: Breaking the rules, challenging the norms (pp. 13-25). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. To access article, click here. To access reviews of the book, click here and here and here.
publications on feminist histories and radical pedagogy:
Fahs, B. (2024). The urgent need for radical feminism today. Signs, 49(2), 479-497. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank. E. (2020). Redefining the work of feminist praxis: Making space for a (rebellious) undergraduate feminist research group. Equity and Excellence in Education, 53(1-2), 244-258.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Sexualities in revolt: Teaching activism, manifesto writing, and anti-assimilationist politics to upper-division undergraduates. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 16(3), 375-393. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2019). Writing with blood: The transformative pedagogy of teaching students to write manifestos. Radical Teacher, 115, 33-38. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2019). Reinvigorating the traditions of second-wave radical feminism: Humor and satire as political work. Women’s Reproductive Health, 6(3), 157-160. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2016). Spitfire and sass: Valerie Solanas’s “A Young Girl’s Primer” and the creative possibilities of a survival self. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 44(1-2), 255-267.
Fahs, B., & Karger, M. (2016). Women's studies as virus: Institutional feminism and the projection of danger. Generos: Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2015). The weight of trash: Teaching sustainability and ecofeminism by asking undergraduates to carry around their own garbage. Radical Teacher, 102, 30-34. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Bertagni, J. (2012). Up from SCUM: Radical feminist pedagogies and consciousness-raising in the classroom. Radical Pedagogy, 10(1). To access click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). Reading between the lines: Ben Morea on anarchy, radicalism, and resistance. Left History, 16(1), 37-53. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2011). Ti-Grace Atkinson and the legacy of radical feminism. Feminist Studies, 37(3), 561-590. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2010). Radical refusals: On the anarchist politics of women choosing asexuality. Sexualities, 13(4), 445-461. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2008). The radical possibilities of Valerie Solanas. Feminist Studies, 34(3), 591-617. To access, click here.
publications on LGBT rights, queer/antiwar/BLM activism, and discrimination:
Fahs, B., Swank, E., & Mayon, M. (2024). Whose streets? Understanding sexual minority support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Sexuality, Gender & Policy, 7, 287-304. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2024). Sexual identities and political solidarities among cisgender women. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 28(1), 142-160. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2022). Sexual identities and reactions to Black Lives Matter. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 19, 1954-1967. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank. E. (2022). Friends or foes? U.S. women’s perceptions of racial justice and the Black Lives Matter protests during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 43(4), 446-462. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2022). I’ll take the check!: A longitudinal replication analysis of gender biases in bill placement from restaurant servers. Journal of Gender Studies, 31(3), 377-389. To access, click here.
Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Pray the gay will stay? Church shopping and religious gatekeeping around homosexuality in an audit study of Christian church officials. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8(1), 106-118. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2021). The coming out process for assigned-female-at-birth transgender and non-binary teenagers: Negotiating multiple identities, parental responses, and early transitions in three case studies. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 15(2), 146-167.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2019). The sexuality gap in protest behavior. Journal of Homosexuality, 66, 324-348. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2017). Understanding feminist activism among women: Resources, consciousness, and social networks. Socius, 3, 1-9. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2017). College students, sexualities, identities, and participation in political marches. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 14, 122-132. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2016). Resources, masculinities, and gender differences among pro-life activists. Sexuality & Culture, 20(2), 277-294. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2014). Predictors of feminist activism among social work students in the United States. Social Work Education, 33(4), 519-532.
Swank E., & Fahs, B. (2013). Predicting electoral activism among gays and lesbians in the United States. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(7), 1382-1393. To access, click here.
Swank, E., Fahs, B., & Frost, D. (2013). Region, social identities, and disclosure practices as predictors of heterosexist discrimination against sexual minorities in the United States. Sociological Inquiry, 83(2), 238-258. To access click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2013). An intersectional analysis of gender and race for sexual minorities who engage in gay and lesbian rights activism. Sex Roles, 68, 660-674. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2013). Why do social work students engage in lesbian and gay rights activism? Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(1), 91-106. To access, click here.
Swank, E., Frost, D. M., & Fahs, B. (2012). Rural location and exposure to minority stress among sexual minorities. Psychology & Sexuality, 3(3), 226-243. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2012). Resources, social networks, and collective action frames of college students who join the gay and lesbian rights movement. Journal of Homosexuality, 59(1), 67-89. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2011). Students for peace: Contextual and framing motivations of antiwar activism. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 38(2), 111-136. To access, click here.
Swank, E., & Fahs, B. (2011). Pathways to political activism among Americans who have same-sex sexual contact. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8(2) 126-138. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2007). Second shifts and political awakenings: Divorce and the political socialization of middle-aged women. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 47(3/4), 43-66. To access, click here.
essays, rants, reviews, etc.:
Fahs, B. (2016). Imagining differently: Revisioning radical feminism. Trivia. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). The politics of turning rape into "nonconsensual sex." The Feminist Wire. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Two or three things I know for sure (about menstruation). Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2014). Traces of feminist rage. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Our animal selves: Introduction to the special issue "Animal Instincts." Trivia. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Diving (back) into the wreck: Finding, transforming, and reimagining women's studies and sexuality studies in the academy. Feminist Studies, 39(2), 496-501. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). On (bull)shit and menstrual solidarity. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). A matter of semantics. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Menstruation as a sensory and aesthetic experience. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). In praise of cycles. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Menstruation according to Apple. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2013). Death to the menstruators!...by dragon! Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). "Menstrual outing," menstrual panics. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). "Feminine hygiene" and the ultimate double standard. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). Collateral damage: Throwing menstruation out of the museum. Re:Cycling. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2012). On "liberated sex" and other myths. The Feminist Wire. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2009). Lifestyle drugs and the new wave of pharmaceutical personality sculpting. The Public Sphere, 6. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2009). Is the selling of virginity a feminist act? The Public Sphere, 3. To access, click here.
Fahs, B. (2008). Would you prefer gay marriage or no marriage? The Public Sphere, 2. To access, click here.
