Marie’s Story - 14

Panel 1: The political and socio-economic crisis led to a brief confessional armed confrontation in 1958.

Panel 5: The “second wave” marked a transition from nationalist feminism to left-wing feminism, whereby the struggle for women’s liberation became situated within the larger context of the various workers’ and anti-colonial struggles across the world. Thus, it challenged the “class-blind” concerns of the existing feminist movement as well as the generalized misogyny within the ranks of the left as a whole. The beginning of this second wave can be traced to the late 1960s, an era marked by the disillusionment caused by the Arab defeat against Israel in the 1967 war (known in Arabic as al-Naksa).