| Because They Were Women: The Montreal Massacre Contributor(s): Boileau, Josée (Author), Bilodeau, Chantal (Translator) |
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ISBN: 177260142X ISBN-13: 9781772601428 Publisher: Second Story Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - History | Women |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.5" W x 9.3" (1.40 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as the "Montreal Massacre" are remembered, their lives cut short on December 6, 1989 when a man entered École Polytechnique and systematically shot every young woman he encountered. The killer was motivated by a misogyny whose roots go far beyond one man and one day. This book examines how December 6 precipitated an entire cultural shift in thinking around gender-based violence. |