"I Hate Feminists!" : December 6, 1989 and its Aftermath

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. ...

Author: By (author)  Melissa Blais , Translated by  Phyllis Aronoff , Translated by  Howard Scott , Foreword by  Carmen Gill
Format: Paperback
Language: English
More Product Information 1: Table of contents
Contents: Introduction Feminist Participation in the Collective Memory of December 6, 1989 From Marginalization to Vilification of Feminist Discourse Commemorations (1999 - 2005) Negotiating Representations of the December 6 Massacre, or When Feminism and Anti-feminism Coexist Conclusion Canada's next ...
More Product Information 2: About Melissa Blais
Melissa Blais is a feminist activist, a lecturer in feminist studies and a Ph.D. student in sociology at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. She is the author of a number of texts on the feminist movement, including an article in Social Movement Studies. ...