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"I Hate Feminists!": December 6, 1989 and Its Aftermath
Contributor(s): Blais, Melissa (Author), Aronoff, Phyllis (Translator), Scott, Howard (Translator)

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 ISBN: 1552666808     ISBN-13: 9781552666807
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
OUR PRICE: $20.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- True Crime | Murder - General
Dewey: 364.152
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.45 lbs) 136 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school cole 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, M lissa 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.
 
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