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.

With rich insight as well as wry irreverence, 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. From Little Orphan Annie to Kill Bill, Girls Who Bite Back shows how far we've come and how far we have to go.

Emily Pohl-Weary is an award-winning author and creative writing instructor at the University of British Columbia. Her audio play, The Witch's Circle, was recently produced by Odyssey Theatre. Her books include the YA novel Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl, Ghost Sick (winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry), and Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (winner of a Hugo Award). Originally from Toronto, she now lives in Vancouver.

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"I'm smitten! (And bitten!) The biting writer-girl contributors of Girls Who Bite Back fight back at the old, worn-out helpless-girl clichés of yesterday's pop culture. They know - and I know, too! -the Great Secret, learned from comics, taught us by the likes of Buffy and Xena: we are all superheroines."— “Trina Robbins, author of The Great Women Cartoonists and Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill