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edition:Paperback

category: Social Science

published: Nov 2020

ISBN:9781772601428

publisher: Second Story Press

Because They Were Women

The Montreal Massacre

by Josée Boileau, translated by Chantal Bilodeau

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post-confederation (1867-), women, feminism & feminist theory

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list price: $24.95

edition:Paperback

category: Social Science

published: Nov 2020

ISBN:9781772601428

publisher: Second Story Press

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Fourteen young university students, 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.

About the Authors

Josée Boileau, author of Because They Were Women, has been a journalist for more than thirty years, many of those for Quebec’s Le Devoir newspaper, where she became Editor in Chief. Today, she is a current affairs commentator for CBC/Radio Canada and Chatelaine, and a book columnist for Journal de Montréal. She has received a number of honors, including the Hélène-Pednault prize in recognition of her feminist activism. She lives in Montreal.

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