Jane Alpert - Mother Right (1974)

Mother Right (1974)

In 1974 Alpert wrote Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory Her audience was women involved in the Feminist Media. Alpert had been underground for three years when she released her piece for publication. “I regard this piece as a distillation of what I have learned in these three years. The piece describes the process by which I became a feminist, and devotes a fair amount of space to my vision for the future, for you, for myself, for the planet.” In Alpert’s letter she says that the first part is in the form of an open letter to, “my sister-fugitives in the Weather Underground.” The second part of the piece is structured around, “my political/religious vision as a feminist and as a woman.” Alpert became a fugitive in May 1970 a few days before her schedule sentence for conspiracy to bomb military and war related corporate building in Manhattan. At that time she was not a member of the Weathermen and she was never part of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). “For now, I only want to set the scene of my renewed acquaintance with the Weather Underground by saying that when it occurred, I was decisively through with the left and had, at least mentally, rededicated myself to the cause of a revolution made by and for women.”