By Paula Ruth Gilbert

In the previous 20 years Quebec girls writers, together with Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created lady characters who're interested by daring sexual activities and language, cruelty, and violence, every now and then culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that those Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the feminine mind's eye explores even if those imagined ladies are notable out at an exterior different or harming themselves via acts of self-destruction and melancholy. Gilbert examines the measure to which ladies are imitating males within the outward path in their anger and hostility and means that such "tough" ladies could be mocking males of their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways that Quebec girl authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American tradition. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates background, sociology, literary thought, feminist idea, and different disciplinary methods to supply a framework for the dialogue of vital moral and aesthetic questions.

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From 1992 to 1996, many more boys than girls were charged with homicide and attempted murder, although the rate has decreased significantly (43). DeKeseredy also shows that girls who kill often come from abusive or negligent families and many have alcoholic or mentally ill parents (44). Boys also outnumber girls in committing physical assault – often revealing their adherence to an “ideology of familial patriarchy” according to which males can abuse females who violate the ideals of male power and control and are justified in demanding obedience, respect, loyalty, and dependency (46).

Between 1963 and 1983, 89% of Canadian youth who killed were male, and 11% were female (42). From 1992 to 1996, many more boys than girls were charged with homicide and attempted murder, although the rate has decreased significantly (43). DeKeseredy also shows that girls who kill often come from abusive or negligent families and many have alcoholic or mentally ill parents (44). Boys also outnumber girls in committing physical assault – often revealing their adherence to an “ideology of familial patriarchy” according to which males can abuse females who violate the ideals of male power and control and are justified in demanding obedience, respect, loyalty, and dependency (46).

Such damaging media hype about bad girls in gangs occurs in Canada as well. DeKeseredy maintains that researchers know very little about the involvement of Canadian girls in youth gangs, since there are as yet 38 Violence and the Female Imagination no studies comparable to those done in the United States (54). Yet this paucity of research has not prevented public and media outcries concerning this issue. Castigating journalists and researchers who have written about Canadian youth gangs with little accurate data and evidence, DeKeseredy accuses them of helping to generate moral hysteria throughout Canada about crime, female crime, youth crime, and specifically female youth crime (55).

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