Burn It Down!

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored five books: Performing Sex; Valerie Solanas; Out for Blood; Firebrand Feminism; and Women, Sex, and Madness. She has also coedited two volumes: The Moral Panics of Sexuality and Transforming Contagion. She is the Founder and Director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.

In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifestoraging and wanting, quarreling and provokinghas always played a central role in feminism, and its the angry, brash feminism we need now. Collecting over 75 manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this confrontational sisterhood, youll find Dyke Manifesto by the Lesbian Avengers The Ax Tampax Poem Feministo by the Bloodsisters Project The Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey Simone de Beauvoirs pro-abortion Manifesto of the 343 Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances M. Beal The Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine de Saint-Point Zapatista Womens Revolutionary Laws Riot Grrrl Manifesto by Bikini Kill Anarchy and the Sex Question by Emma GoldmanBreanne Fahs argues that we need manifestos in all their urgent rawnesstheir insistence that we have to act now, that we must face this, that the bleeding edge of rage and defiance ignites new and revolutionary possibilities is where new ideas are born.

The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today.