HIST 2360Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Florence Bird, Henry Morgentaler, Alex Colville
5 Apr 2016
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December 6th, 1989 fourteen quebec women murdered at ecole polytechnique in montreal: engineering school, walked into a lecture hall, with a gun (at irst it appeared to be a joke) Man demanded that all men leave the classroom: started screaming about how feminists had ruined his life. Walking the halls, and randomly shot people: eventually took his own life. His message was that he hated women, violence against women. Represented a symbol of the violence against women that was prevalent in society. Legal and poliical implicaions, quebec realized they hadn"t done a good job in responding to this incident. Used name of denis, man who atacked the naional assembly, when raning on the day of. Biggest response was gun control: liberal government in 1993 they had promised beter gun control. Gun registry for all guns created in 1995. Quesionable that this event was horriic, showed that there was and sill is violence against women because they are women.
