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MONTREAL MASSACRE

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

On December 6, 1989, Marc Lepine entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women students before taking his own life.

This event has been a rallying point for women's groups who see the killings as reflective of generalized devaluation and violence against women in society.

December 6 has become a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Remembering and Learning from the Montreal Massacre. 
Authors: Rosenberg, Sharon; Simon, Roger I. 
Source: Educational Theory, v50 n2 p133-55 Spr 2000 
Discusses prevailing remembrance practices related to a massacre at one Montreal university, addressing what has contributed to their normative form, problems resulting from those formations, and potential new memorials. The article proposes an argument for understanding the event not only as the killings, but also as the memorial formations that have been forged in its wake (particularly emblemization). - eric.ed.gov

Neither Forgotten nor Fully Remembered 
Tracing an Ambivalent Public Memory on the 10th Anniversary of the Montréal Massacre 
Sharon Rosenberg, University of Alberta 
Feminist Theory, Vol. 4, No. 1, 5-27 (2003) DOI: 10.1177/1464700103004001001 © 2003 SAGE Publications
This article works from 10th anniversary reporting on the Montréal massacre and its legacy, arguing that the public memory of the massacre, far from being settled, is charged with ambivalence. It is argued that such ambivalence is an effect of the limits of remembrance as a `strategic practice', which has circumscribed sustained encounters with the loss(es) of the massacre. Ambivalence is read in the article as both a limit and resource for feminists interested in re-opening the question of the massacre's public memory for the next decade of memorial-activism. - fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/1/5

Reframing the Montreal Massacre: Strategies for Feminist Media Activism 
Maureen Bradley
Canadian Journal of Communication. ISSN: 1499-6642
Abstract: In the days that followed the Montréal Massacre at the École Polytechnique, December 6, 1989, the Canadian mass media became a discursive battleground regarding violence against women. In response to this phenomenon, I released a half-hour documentary in 1995 entitled Reframing the Montreal Massacre: A Media Interrogation. Designed as a feminist tool for media literacy, the tape deconstructs six key moments in the media coverage of the Massacre. This paper serves as an extended artist’s statement to accompany the project’s re-release on the Internet, while simultaneously exploring aesthetic and representational strategies that shape the documentary. - cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=1881

After the Montreal Massacre - Video (NTSC) - www2.wcc-coe.org
ABSTRACT: December 6, 1989. Sylvie Gagnon was attending her last day of classes at Ecole Polytechnique, an engineering school in Montreal, when Marc Lepine entered the building. Systematically separating the women from the men, he opened fire on women students, yelling "you're all a bunch of feminists." Sylvie survived a bullet wound to the head while fourteen other women were murdered.
After the Montreal Massacre is a useful tool for helping us come to terms with these murders and how they relate to the larger picture of male violence against women. Women throughout Canada and the world are expressing a growing concern about the widespread violence and mounting fear in their daily lives. The haunting images taken on the day of the massacre and in the days following, set the stage for an exploration of the urgent issues of misogyny, male violence and sexism.
Testimony from Sylvie Gagnon about what the massacre means to her, conversations with a group of college students, and interviews with noted writers, feminist activists, and leaders of organizations for women, contribute to this moving and important documentary which provides a challenge for change in our political, social and personal lives. 

The Hidden Narratives: stories of the many in the Montreal Massacre
Sue McPherson 2006
Abstract: The Montreal Massacre is seen as one of the most appalling tragedies in Canadian history. On December 6th, 1989, a 25 year-old man walked into the École Polytechnique in Montreal and shot to death fourteen women, wounding twelve others, before turning the rifle on himself. One of the main narratives to evolve from this mass murder was “violence against women,” of which Marc Lépine became the symbol. This main narrative, which made the most sense at the time, was able to contain the emotions of many of those affected. Many years have passed, and in this paper I explore the hidden narratives—of Lépine’s life and others—which have been set aside while the grieving has been taking place. The individual stories and fragments of stories of those who died and those who survived, and the injustice felt on all sides, from before the event and the years since then, are what make up the Montreal Massacre. As a means of drawing together the different spaces of the Montreal Massacre I draw on Michel Foucault’s model of the heterotopia, and consider the possibility of moving forward towards more diverse forms of remembering. - montrealmassacre.net

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