{"id":2006,"date":"2013-08-13T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2006"},"modified":"2013-12-19T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T19:05:39","slug":"sexual-difference-in-a-time-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/sexual-difference-in-a-time-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Difference in a Time of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sexual-difference-event.jpg\" alt=\"Sexual Difference in a Time of Terror event image\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sexual-difference-event.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sexual-difference-event-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sexual-difference-event-300x199.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and wounded many others in a bombing and mass shooting in Norway motivated by his extreme right-wing ideology. In his manifesto, \u201c2083: A European Declaration of Independence,\u201d Breivik identified cultural Marxism, Islam, and feminism as the main causes of Europe\u2019s decay. Arguing for the superiority of the white, European race, and the dangers of immigration and religious plurality for Europe\u2019s future, Breivik denied the value of difference, be it sexual, cultural, or religious. Approaching these terrorist attacks from the perspective of Luce Irigaray\u2019s philosophy, Ellen Mortensen argues that Breivik\u2019s extremist ideology operates in alignment with Western metaphysics that posits the masculine, European subject as \u201cthe lord of the earth,\u201d denying all differences other than the ones hailed by white, male, Christian supremacists. <\/p>\n<p>Mortensen is the director of the Center for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, and is currently a BCRW Transnational Research Fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and wounded many others in a bombing and mass shooting in Norway motivated by his extreme right-wing ideology. In his manifesto, \u201c2083: A European Declaration of Independence,\u201d Breivik identified cultural Marxism, Islam, and feminism as the main causes of Europe\u2019s decay. Arguing for the superiority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2007,"template":"","tags":[76,97,6,36,59,11,28],"class_list":["post-2006","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christianity","tag-democracy","tag-gender","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-race","tag-violence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}