Books

Aftermath: the mother of Marc Lepine tells the story of her life before and after the Montreal Massacre

Monique Lepine and Harold Gagne

Viking, Canada

9780670069699

2008

Interview with Monique Lepine

"That event destroyed my life," Lepine said. "On top of the pain of losing my son, I felt the shame of being the mother of a killer. You don't raise a son to become a killer."

Citation:  White, Marianne. “Mother of mass killer Lepine dredges up horror of rampage.” Windsor Star October 28 2008: C. 1

Excerpt:

“For the first time since they had told me that Marc was the killer, I felt anger and dislike for the forces of law and order.  For all their feigned consideration, those two detectives had little regard for what I might be going through.  They were intent on carrying out the orders of their superiors with single-minded determination.”

Citation: Lepine, Monique and Harold Gagne. “Aftermath: the mother of Marc Lepine tells the story of her life before and after the Montreal Massacre.” Toronto: Viking, Canada 2008, p. 11.

December 6: from the Montreal Massacre to gun control: the inside story, HV7439 .C3 R37 1999

Heidi Rathjen and Charles Montpetit

McClelland and Stewart

9780771061257

1999

Reviews:

“Yet Rathjen's account captures none of the upheaval of that time. In her quest for pragmatic solutions, she insistently severs gun control from any social discussion of violence -- violence against women, violence against men and our culture of violence -- omissions all the more glaring given the recent wave of school shootings.”

Citation:  Klein, Naomi. “One-track book robs meaning from massacre December 6: from the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control: the Inside Story.” Globe and Mail December 4 1999: D7

Montreal Massacre
Edited by: Louise Malette and Marie Chalouh

Translated by: Marlene Wildeman
gynergy books

9780921881148

1991

Reviews:

“Voice after voice reiterates that the murderer was a misogynist whose actions were carefully planned and executed and whose targets were women. This was no random act of violence but a deliberate political act of a man who blamed women for all his problems and conducted a careful plan of reprisal. His act graphically illustrates how violence against women is condoned by our patriarchal society.”

Citation: Freeman, Janice. "The Montreal Massacre." Canadian Dimension July-Aug. 1991: 36+.

“The Montreal Massacre is the bloody aftermath, a ritual, representative howl of anguish and anger at man’s inhumanity to woman.”

Citation: "A Documentary In Print." Books In Canada 20.5 (1991): 51.

Excerpt:

“All things considered, M.L. was no young man.  He was as old as all the sexist, misogynist proverbs, as old as all the Church fathers who ever doubted women had a soul.  He was as old as all the legislators who ever forbade women the university, the right to vote, access to the public sphere.  M.L. was as old as Man and  his contempt for women.”

Citation: Brossard, Nicole. “The Killer was no Young Man.” Trans. Marlene Wildeman. Montreal Massacre. Ed. Louise Malette and Marie Chalouh. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: gynergy books, 1991. 33.

Montreal Massacre: a story of membership categorization analysis
Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

9780889204225

2003

Reviews:

“The authors deftly situate the shooter's statements within a political framing relevant to the status of women in society, including the examination of the perpetrator's suicide note, and subsequent interpretations made by media commentators.”

Citation: Adam McDowell.  "Montreal college shooting survivors, families urge NDP to save gun registry. " Postmedia News  16 September 2010.

“…I enjoyed the layered approach to the media accounts - first examining the characters and setting, then turning their attention to the stories put forth (and also those that were not put forth), and finally discussing the commentary from professionals, including academics, on those stories.”

Citation: Hester, Stephen, Eglin, Peter, and Atwood, Kristin (REVIEWER). "The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis. " Labour  55 (2005): 267.

Excerpt:

"Ms. Provost said that when Mr. Lepine burst into her classroom, ordering the male students to leave and the women to remain, she tried to talk to him.

   'When we were alone with him in the room... [sic] he said, 'I am here to fight against feminism, that is why I am here.'

   'Maybe I was still not realizing fully what was happening, but I told him: 'Look, we are just women studying engineering, not necessarily feminists ready to march on the streets to shout we are against men, just students intent on leading a normal life.'" p. 57

Rage and resistance: a theological reflection on the Montreal Massacre
Theresa M. O’Donovan

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

9780889205222

2007

Reviews:

“This volume represents the doctoral thesis of O'Donovan (religious studies and philosophy, Brescia U. College, Canada), in which she examines the presentation of, responses to, and debates over the Montreal Massacre, as well as their theological implications and connections to wider questions over violence against women.”

Citation: "Rage and resistance; a theological reflection on the Montreal massacre". Reference and Research Book News 1 Feb. 2007.

“If we are to eradicate the violence in our culture, the pain of all women and men under current unjust cultural and political systems must be addressed. O’Donovan’s work offers a refreshing perspective on a difficult topic.”

Citation: Adle, Barbara. "Rage And Resistance: A Theological Reflection On The Montreal Massacre." Letters In Canada 77.1 (2008): 410-412.

Excerpt:

"That the demonization of feminism in the media and elsewhere has been effective is manifest every time a woman vehemently denies  any affiliation with it, and every time it is used to dismiss a woman who claims it." p. 85