Offred's mother

Summary

• Political activist before the rise of the regime
• Campaigned for women's sexual and social freedom
• Appears as a young woman in a film that the women are shown at the Red Centre

Political activist

• She joined the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, campaigning for women's sexual and social freedoms.
• She continued to be a political activist but disappeared at the time of the Gileadean takeover.
• Offred later learns that she…