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I left my Kindle on the airplane and couldn't read for a while until I got it back - oops.

Anyway! This chapter describes the stages of conversation and spends most of the time operationalising the different categories of speech in conversation. It touches upon the differences in age as well, explaining how egocentrism shapes the conversation of children in the pre-operational stage.

I left my Kindle on the airplane and couldn't read for a while until I got it back - oops.

Anyway! This chapter describes the stages of conversation and spends most of the time operationalising the different categories of speech in conversation. It touches upon the differences in age as well, explaining how egocentrism shapes the conversation of children in the pre-operational stage.

This chapter provided great insight into how research with children is carried out, and clearly layed out the types of speech (either socialised or egocentric) - repetition, pure monologues, collective monologues, adapted information, criticism, commands, questions, and answers. Overall, 6-7 year old children speak mostly for themselves, to 'accompany and reinforce individual activity'.

As a person thoroughly interested in psychology and human development, I'm super excited to start reading this!!

Mujihadeen, focussing on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The book stresses that the USA did not fund them as much, which I took with a grain of salt. It also explores the interconnection of major events; the peace deal between Israel and Egypt, the Islamic Revolution, the Soviet Invasion, and the occupation of the mosque in Mecca. It describes the implications of these on the Islamic world, and the role of OBL.

This chapter surrounds the background of the Bin Laden family, the thinkers behind Bin Laden's ideology, and his childhood. Islam is proposed as a solution to economic, social, and political problems, much the way capitalism or communism is, and is a unique political ideology inherently. It also somewhat touched upon the effects of colonialism, with most major thinking being reactionary.

This chapter provided context to the religion of Islam, and argues that due to this it is explicitly political. Bin Laden took the element of jihad, assumedly defensive but definitely offensive, for his political goals. There are links to martrydom; action, demonstration of faith, is more important than results. Therefore, suicide becomes a part of terrorism, highlighting that faith will bring them success.

Much to unpack; kinda repetitive. Ultimately, the 'Al Qaeda' didn't call themselves that - it perpetuates an oversimplified assumption that it was an organisation. Its comforting but allows for agendas and propaganda. Instead, Laden attracted militants with a network and there were ideological, political, and tactical differences between them. Many did not follow him because their goals were national, not global.

I just read the introduction. It is extremely well structured and already challenged some beliefs, like the Al Qaeda not being as meticulously planned. I have been super interested in American involvement in the Arab world after learning about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in my Cold War unit. It seeks to examine the roots of and contextualise Al Qaeda. I'm excited to begin reading

Riddell discusses Kitty's legacy, relating it to the current feminist movements such as #MeToo. She also calls into question the extent of sanitisation and glamourisation. When reading this, she mentions how easy it is for her to idolise Kitty and I too idolise Kitty - but then argues how violent and dangerous the suffragettes truely were. What an interesting concept, and what a revolutionary woman Kitty was.

Kitty finds camaraderie in the birth control movement. She desperately urges people to acknowledge female sexuality. Where there was a view among suffragettes that sex subjugated women - contraception acting as a multiplier of male sexual debauchery - Kitty draws on her experience from the music hall to guide her activism. The vote isn't important if change isn't enacted.

Kitty is deported to the US, followed by pervasive anti-German sentiment. She struggled at first but found her place in the movement for birth control and sexual liberty. It is devestating that she devoted herself so wholly to the suffrage movement in England but was betrayed by the people she supported, both in England and in the US.

The name of the book is finally revealed to be a reference to a message painted on a tin canaster containing explosives, placed in Smeaton Tower - an old lighthouse. While the police preferred to represent them as no more than disruptive teenagers, they continued what was essentially a guerilla war. The use of rhetoric and war-like language makes them a threat in a masculine sense.

Kitty joins the WSPU and finds likeminded women who understood and wanted to fight against the 'inherent misogyny of society'. She found herself a soldier dedicated to the cause, was thrown in prison, and subjected to force feedings.

"Violence had been a man's weapon; why should it not be a woman's too?"

"Being thrown to wild animals is nothing compared to being thrown to an infuriated human mob."

Love & Lies :: Kitty Marion learns about love, sex, marriage, and choice. What particularly stood out to me was her relationship with vet student Jack, and her relationship with director Robert Halford. Halford gave her a sense of comfort which was taken away the second she didn't conform to his idea of femininity and her refusal to be bought (marry his son). This is all very tragic. Kitty had very little choice...

Chapter 3 follows Kitty's newfound passion for theatre, and the horrible abuse faced by a man who thought she owed him for her job. There is an anecdote about Belle Bilton, a demonstration of female domination in a male dominated world. She was ultimately painted as a femme-fatale. Kitty's story is one of hope despite facing abuse. It was this that incited in her a 'revolutionary spirit'

Chapter 2 defines Kitty's childhood; the taste of freedom she recieved from time spent living with other family members, and abuse endured from her father. The world of theater represented freedom where it also represented sex.
This chapter made me reflect on the ongoing issue of men's anger manifesting as control. Its also quite hopeful, beginning to reframe understandings of sex's role in the feminist movement.

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