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. Kristyn Dunnion's "Homeland" reveals the horrors that lurk in your average night at 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".

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Despite the significance of turning during walking in everyday life there has been very little research on turning capacity in ambulatory individuals suffering from stroke-related hemiparesis. In able-bodied gait, temporal features required for straight walking become increasingly asymmetric when travelling along a path of increasing curvature. For example, the inner leg of the turn remains in single support longer while the outer leg swings around to direct the body along the curved path. During straight walking post-stroke, stance duration on the non-paretic side tends to be longer compared to the paretic side. The tendency to favor weight bearing on the non-paretic limb might restrict the extent to which interlimb asymmetry can be adapted to increasing path curvature during turns to the paretic side (ie: when the paretic leg is the inner leg of the turn). Hence, turns to the non-paretic side may be favored. The purpose of this study was to examine the pattern of asymmetry in stroke survivors when walking along a curved path. It was hypothesized that stroke participants would show more difficulty turning to their paretic side than turning to their non-paretic side.