Download or read book Because They Were Women written by Josée Boileau and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.