Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire by Dawn, Amber

Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men,...
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Author: Amber Dawn
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Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire by Dawn, Amber

Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

$40.65

Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

$40.65
Author: Amber Dawn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even vampy, powerful female villains, such as the classic noir "spider women," use their sexual prowess to seduce and overwhelm married men. Fist of the Spider Woman is a revelatory anthology of horror stories by queer and transgressive women and others that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning traditional horror iconography on its head.

In this collection, horror (including gothic, noir, and speculative writing) is defined as that which both titillates and terrorizes, forcing readers to confront who they are. Kristya Dunnion's Homeland reveals the horrors that lurk on your average night in a lesbian bar; Elizabeth Bachinsky's "Postulation on the Violent Works of the Marquis de Sade" is a response to Sade from a feminist (yet kinky) perspective; and Amber Dawn's "Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental" is a paranormal fantasia about urban gentrification, set in a house rented by lesbians on the eve that it is sold to new owners.

Subversive, witty, sexy--and scary--Fist of the Spider Woman poses two questions: "What do queer women fear the most?" and "What do queer women desire the most?"

Amber Dawn is a writer, performance artist, and radical sex/gender activist who co-edited With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn.



Author: Amber Dawn
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.02w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781551522517


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

About the Author
Amber Dawn Vancouver-based writer, performance artist, and radical sex/gender activist.

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