Nidal’s Story - 20 | Where to, Marie?

Panel 3: “Second wave” feminism in Lebanon tended to be partisan; for example al-Tajammo’ al-nisa’i al-dimocrati al-lubnani (Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering - LWDG) founded in 1976 was a sister organization of Munazamat al-‘amal al-shuyu’i fi lubnan (the Organization of Communist Action in Lebanon - OCAL), while al-Ittihad al-nisa’i al-taqaddumi (The Progressive Women’s Union) founded in 1980, was affiliated to the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP). These organizations could not form a political agenda independent of the political parties to which they were affiliated.

Panel 4: Nidal is seen here reading The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan, one of the many works of feminist literature that helped spark the “second wave” of feminism in the US. Other seminal examples of “second wave” feminist literature include: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970), by Shulamith Firestone, and The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm (1970), by Anne Koedt.