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, an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," Valerie Solanas, a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood, a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance, and Firebrand Feminism, a book about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice.