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 _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:52:15 -0500 From: Emily Pohl-Weary <emily@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@on.aibn.com