"I Hate Feminists!" - December 6, 1989 and its Aftermath (Paperback)

On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring "I hate feminists," killed fourteen young women. "I Hate Feminists!", originally published in French in 2009, examines the collective memory that emerged in the immediate aftermath and years following the massacre as Canadians struggled to make sense of this tragic event and understand the motivations of the killer. Exploring stories and editorials in Montreal and Toronto newspapers, texts distributed within anti-feminist "masculinist" networks, discourses about memorials in major Canadian cities and the film Polytechnique, which was released on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre, Melissa Blais argues that feminist analyses and the killer's own statements have been set aside in favour of interpretations that absolve the killer of responsibility or even shift that blame onto women and feminists. In the end, Blais contends, the collective memory that has been constructed through various media has functioned not as a testament to violence against women but as a catalyst for anti-feminist discourse.

General

Imprint:	Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	November 2014
Authors:	Melissa Blais
Translators:	Phyllis Aronoff • Howard Scott
Foreword by:	Carmen Gill
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-1-55266-680-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-55266-680-8
Barcode:	9781552666807

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