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Identities: Feminist and gender theory

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 key notes Judith Butler: gender roles Butler believes traditional feminists are wrong to divide society into ‘men’ and ‘women’ and says gender is not biologically fixed. By dividing men and women, feminists accidently reinforced the idea of differences between the two genders Butler believes gender roles are ‘a performance’ and that male and female behaviour is socially constructed rather than the result of biology. Butler and the media If gender is a ‘performance’ rather than biological, we then need to think about what is influencing that ‘performance’. And that’s where the media comes in. How might the media influence our behaviour in terms of gender roles? Angela McRobbie: empowering women McRobbie is a British cultural theorist known for her work analysing magazines aimed at women and teenage girls in the 80s and 90s. McRobbie highlights the empowering nature of magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Glamour, taking a different perspective to traditional feminists. Thi

30. Model Munroe Bergdorf quits as Labour LGBT adviser

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Model Munroe Bergdorf quits as Labour LGBT adviser https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/06/model-munroe-bergdorf-quits-as-labour-lgbt-adviser Jessica Elgot Political correspondent   @jessicaelgot Tue 6 Mar 2018  10.13 GMT Last modified on Tue 6 Mar 2018  10.54 GMT View more sharing options Shares 1394 The  well known transgender model and campaigner Miss Munroe Bergdorf has quit her job on the labour party’s LGBT advisory board after many offensive comments in the tabloid press and also by the oppostion party, Conservatives off the comments she had made on social media sites. Initially, Miss Bergdorf said she had been extremely honoured and grateful for  the appointment and role she was give but afterwards it had “turned into nasty tabloid fodder, blown out of all proportion”. Morever, the model has also ended a L’Oreal partnership over other but similar controversial statements as she claims that  her words were taken heavily out

28. Irish prime minister dismisses Theresa May's border idea

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/05/post-brexit-irish-border-could-be-like-us-canada-says-may Peter Walker ,  Lisa O'Carroll  and  Anushka Asthana Mon 5 Mar 2018  19.41 GMT First published on Mon 5 Mar 2018  17.50 GMT View more sharing options Shares 1087 Dispite the fact that Ireland’s prime minister has not heard or dicussed this propersal from the British prime minster hersel, he is has dismissed the suggestion that the Canada-US border. In addition, he feels as if it will not solve irelands problems. He states “I visited the Canada/US border back in August and saw physical infrastructure with customs posts, people in uniforms with arms and dogs and that is definitely not a solution that we could possibly entertain,”  He told the Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel whilst in a press conference in berlin that he that he had not heard May’s speech and did not want to comment on it directly but he was clear this arrangemen

27. EU Brexit adviser deals blow to Theresa May's free-trade proposal

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EU Brexit adviser deals blow to Theresa May's free-trade proposal https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/06/eu-brexit-adviser-deals-blow-to-theresa-mays-free-trade-proposal Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Tue 6 Mar 2018  00.54 GMT Last modified on Tue 6 Mar 2018  09.08 GMT View more sharing options Shares 1438 May claimed in her speech last Friday that the UK could negotiate a future trade relationship based on mutual recognition of standards overseen by a third party court, made up of EU and UK nominees. however it has been said that “The EU has moved away in the wake of the financial crisis from mutual recognition of national standards to a centralised approach with a single EU rule book and common enforcement structures and single supervisory structures.”   Theresa May’s Brexit speech: our writers give their verdict Polly Toynbee, Katy Balls, Maya Goodfellow and John Redwood   Read more He also stated

26. Britain has large audience for online jihadist propaganda

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/19/britain-has-large-audience-for-online-jihadist-propaganda-report-says Alan Travis  Home affairs editor Tue 19 Sep 2017  00.01 BST Last modified on Mon 27 Nov 2017  16.49 GMT View more sharing options   This article is  6 months old Shares 284 Online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in Britain than in any other European country and the main internet companies are failing to restrict or control the content being shown to british users. In addition it is said that over a 100 item of new content regarding jihadist propagand is landing in the uk. These videos include execution videos and bomb-making instructions, despite the fact that this is not representative as there is more  military defeats in Iraq and Syria than the rebels. 'A bag, a flash, a bang': witness accounts of the Parsons Green explosion   Read more However there is a agreement between Theresa May and th