Because They Were Women : The Montreal Massacre
Fourteen deaths that forced a reckoning with violence against women
Praise & Recognition
“Boileau’s approach has the double effect of humanizing that list of names and ages we associate with December 6 and making the reader feel the loss of these young women and their futures all the more keenly.”
Quill & QuireCe jour-là’s English publication is important, sharing the mourning across the two colonial language communities, and sharing some sense of agency as well.
Montreal Review of BooksIt highlights how far Quebec has come in the years since the massacre, which happened at a time when few women would publicly identify themselves as feminists. But just as importantly, it highlights how far there is still left to go.
Herizons MagazineDetails
Publication Date: November 10, 2020
Genre: Adult Nonfiction
Product Format: Paperback
Pages: 308
ISBN: 978-1-77260-142-8
Weight: 630
About the Author
Josée Boileau
Josée Boileau has been a journalist for more than thirty years, many of those for Quebec’s Le Devoir newspaper, where she became Editor in Chief. Today, she is a current affairs commentator for CBC/Radio Canada and Chatelaine, and a book columnist for Journal de Montréal. She has received a number of honors, including the Hélène-Pednault prize in recognition of her feminist activism. She lives in Montreal.
About the Translator
Chantal Bilodeau
Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, art, and climate change. She has translated over a dozen plays and half a dozen books from Quebec, France, and West Africa.
