Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village And The Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism

The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement's most radical ideas On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of free love, equal marriage, and easier divorce. They were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries; artists, writers, and scientists. Their club, at the heart of America's bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics. But it was the women's extraordinary friendships that made their unconventional lives possible, as they supported each other in pushing for a better world. Hotbed is the never-before-told story of the bold women whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed a feminist agenda into a modern way of life.

• | Author: Joanna Scutts
• | Publisher: Seal Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1541647173
• | ISBN-13: 9781541647176