Aware of social injustice at an early age, she made her first speech on that topic in Hebrew School, insisting that the congregation whose members sported jewels and furs were not living true Jewish values. Way before the women’s movement hit its stride, Dworkin was a child of the counterculture, marching for civil rights and against war she was deeply in love with Allen Ginsberg, whom she viewed as her soulmate. Various actors, representing a mix of races, ages and ethnicities (they include Andrea Riseborough, Ashley Judd and Christine Lahti) recite her words and, in some instances, enact snippets from her books. Dworkin is interviewed on talk shows, addresses university audiences, participates in protests, and reads from her own works. The nonlinear film, moving backward and forward in time, interweaves home movies, old photos and archival footage. A Jewish, Camden-born activist-writer, maverick thinker and political gadfly, she is best known for her heady analysis of pornography, although her many writings, including memoirs, essays, short stories and novels, span more than three decades and cover a host of topics, including homosexuality, antisemitism and racism.Īnd now a documentary, “My Name Is Andrea,” traces her trajectory, focusing on key moments of her journey. Andrea Rita Dworkin, who died in 2005 at the age of 58, continues to be one of the most controversial and misunderstood “radical” feminists.
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