Motherhouse
Publisher: Talonbooks, Limited
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780889228481
Subjects: Play
Description: "Motherhouse is the story of munitions workers in a factory in Verdun, Quebec, that employed thousands of women ... during the First and Second World Wars. They serviced the war effort while their men served overseas and got killed in record numbers. It's a community that made a living getting itself murdered, a community mothered and maimed by war. A story told as a caution by someone whose life was shaped by that communal experience. A story that celebrates a resistance to mass murder that rarely gets into the official historical accounts."