Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is a professor of Women and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Arizona State University. She has published widely on feminism, women' sexuality, critical body studies, and political activism amongst other topics. 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 is the author of seven books, including Performing Sex, Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood, Firebrand Feminism, Unshaved, Women, Sex, and Madness, and Fat and Furious. She has also edited or coedited five books including The Moral Panics of Sexuality, Transforming Contagion, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education, and Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, which was a New York Times notable book. Her work has appeared in Signs, Gender & Society, Feminism & Psychology, the Boston Review, Dissent, and the Paris Review. She is currently working on her new book, Turn Off Capitalism, about the problematic intrusion of capitalistic logics into people's sexual lives. She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University and a practicing clinical psychologist with over twenty years of clinical experience.