Because They Were Women

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Because They Were Women is written by Josée Boileau and published by Second Story Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1772601438 (ISBN 10) and 9781772601435 (ISBN 13).

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.