Bibliograph

Hotbed, Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism, Joanna Scutts

Type

Label

Hotbed, Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism, Joanna Scutts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-375) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hotbed

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1275355434

Responsibility statement

Joanna Scutts

Sub title

Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism

Summary

New York, late 1912. Around the plain wooden tables of Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village 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 supper club. The goals of the group were simple: they would meet to talk about their lives, their politics, and the still-not widely recognized idea that women were fundamentally equal to men. The women of Heterodoxy fostered not only a community, but a movement. The club and its members were passionate advocates of free love, equal marriage, and easier divorce; several lived openly in same-sex relationships. Scutts profiles the bold women whose radical ideas, unruly lives, and extraordinary friendships blazed the trail for female ambition. -- adapted from publisher info

Table Of Contents

Introduction: A little world for us -- Way down south in Greenwich Village -- The type has changed -- The rebel girls and the mink brigade -- The new abolitionists -- What we want is a revolution -- To dynamite New York -- Femi-what? -- Does Mr. Freud live in the Village? -- Suppressed desires -- "The baby is the great problem" -- How long must we wait? -- A woman's war against war -- Pacifism versus patriotism -- Red scare, red summer -- The future of feminism -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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