![]() ![]() Just two months before Dworkin said “I do,” Ellen Willis and Shulamith Firestone founded the action-oriented radical-feminist group Redstockings. In New York, the women’s movement was in its first exhilarating years. It’s also on her neck in the photo of them standing before a canal kissing. Oddly, the groom’s hand isn’t around Dworkin’s shoulder or waist, but gripping her neck. in the ceremony we promised to respect each other.” In a group shot, the newlyweds, dressed in embroidered robes (hers Turkish, his Tibetan), stand seriously at the center of their longhaired friends. In a letter from April 1969, she writes to her parents in New Jersey about her wedding, “no one gave me away. This one is very young, just twenty-two, with black-rimmed eyes and a chin-length haircut with bangs. The bride is not the Andrea Dworkin we know, who wore a uniform of denim overalls and sneakers, militant and unmitigated by a single capitulation to feminine beauty standards. Black-and-white photos show a white hippie couple in a city hall ceremony in Amsterdam. ![]()
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