Because They Were Women: The Montreal Massacre

By Jos�e Boileau and Josée Boileau

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 ?cole 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177260142X
• ISBN13: 9781772601428
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Second Story Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"