[Air-l] Girls Who Bite Back (Press Release) (fwd)

[Barry Wellman]

Folks,
Emily Pohl-Weary, whom I've known as Judy Merril's granddaughter since she
was knee-high to a snowmobile, has a nice anthology out with lots of
techno research sociological stuff. Emily, like her late granny (one of my
best friends) is a great writer. (And while I'm thinking of Judy, my obit
of her is on my website - Publications - Memories.

 Barry
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:52:15 -0500
From: Emily Pohl-Weary <emily at kissmachine.org>
Subject: Girls Who Bite Back (Press Release)

Girls Who Bite Back:
Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks
Edited by Emily Pohl-Weary

Taking on the bombshell spies, slayers, witches and assassins who are
fighting their way into movies and television shows everywhere, Girls Who
Bite Back examines what these new role models for young women are really about.

Emily Pohl-Weary, co-author with Judith Merril of the Hugo Award-winning
Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, puts her unique stamp on
the field of speculative fiction and pop culture in this one-of-a-kind
anthology of short stories, cultural analysis, comics and original artwork.

Girls Who Bite Back cuts through the layers of the new "female power,"
questioning its corporate origins and investigating issues of race and
sexual orientation. And it goes a crucial step further by asking: If you
don't like what's out there, what do you want to see?

In response, writers like Hiromi Goto (The Kappa Child, Chorus of
Mushrooms), Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads),
Larissa Lai (Salt Fish Girl, When Fox Is a Thousand), Nikki Stafford (Bite
Me! An Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, How Xena
Saved Our Lives), Mariko Tamaki (True Lies: The Book of Bad
Advice, Cover Me) and more have chronicled good and evil supergirls,
envisioned new role models and created a do-it-yourself guide to being a
superhero.

Talented artists, including Shary Boyle, Eliza Griffiths, Sonja Ahlers,
Sheila Butler and Matthew Blackett, have imagined stronger, more
intelligent superheroines and explored the ugly side of girls who fight
back. There's even an illustrated recipe for action!

Pohl-Weary has put together an assembly of fresh voices that bring rich
insight, as well as wry irreverence, to this compelling and controversial
issue. From Little Orphan Annie to Kill Bill, Girls Who Bite Back shows how
far we've come, how far we have to go, and gives us a sneak peak of a
future where all girls bite back.

Visit the site at: www.girlswhobiteback.com

Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks
Edited by Emily Pohl-Weary
Sumach Press
332 pages. 6"x 9". $26.95 Cdn/$22.95 US pb. ISBN 1-894549-33-3
Release date: April 2004
Download a lovely PDF version of this press release:
http://www.girlswhobiteback.com/gwbbPR.pdf
For further information, please contact our publicist, Angela Rawlings,
sumachpress at on.aibn.com