Description: Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.
Brief description: Breanne Fahs is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives, also published by SUNY Press, Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), and the coeditor (with Mary L. Dudy and Sarah Stage) of The Moral Panics of Sexuality.
Review Quotes:
"Though Out for Blood is funny and playful, Fahs also demands that we take menstruation seriously. In support of this demand, Fahs delivers a rigorous interrogation of cultural attitudes about menstruation, its meaning in the psychic life of people who menstruate, and possibilities for menstrual activism. Out for Blood is also a significant contribution to literature on feminist pedagogy." -- Sex Roles
"Out for Blood is [a] lively interdisciplinary interrogation ... It is a book that clears all the misconceptions about what essentially defines womanhood." -- Cover Drive