Firebrand Feminism ― The Radical Lives of Ti-grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-ortiz, and Dana Densmore

Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science. In Firebrand Feminism, Breanne Fahs brings together ten years of dialogue with four founders of the radical feminist movement: Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore. Taking aim at the selfishness of the right and the incremental politics of the liberal left, they defiantly and fiercely created a new kind of feminism in the late 1960s.

Firebrand Feminism provides a timely and historically rich account of these audacious women and the lasting impact of their words and work. This unique and provocative book unites second- and third-wave feminism and creates a much-needed intergenerational dialogue about the utility of feminist rage, the importance of refusal, the changing politics of sex and love, trans rights, and tactics to start (and continue) a revolution.

Breanne Fahs is professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance; Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol); Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women’s Erotic Lives; and coeditor of The Moral Panics of Sexuality and Transforming Contagion.