Hotbed

Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

Joanna Scutts

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Duckworth
14 July 2022

History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies: women; Revolutionary groups & movements; Bargains

New York City, 1912: in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world.

This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of women's suffrage, labour rights, equal marriage and free love. They were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries; artists, writers and scientists. Hotbed is the never-before-told story of the club whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed an international feminist agenda into a modern way of life.

For readers who loved Mo Moulton's Mutual Admiration Society and Francesca Wade's Square Haunting.

By: Joanna Scutts
Imprint: Duckworth
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780715654743
ISBN 10: 0715654748
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 14 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian and the author of The Extra Woman. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and New Yorker, and created the Paris Review series 'Feminize Your Canon'. Raised in London and educated at Cambridge and Sussex universities, she gained her PhD from Columbia University and lives in New York.

Reviews for Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

'Incredibly resonant in today's times, and a profound read' FIONA DAVIS, New York Times-bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue 'Deeply researched and deftly rendered... a spirited, inspiring history' LAUREN ELKIN, author of Flaneuse 'A transporting tour-de-force of storytelling' JANICE P. NIMURA, author of The Doctors Blackwell 'Spirit and panache... one for anyone interested in the history of feminism, friendship, or New York City' RUTH FRANKLIN, award winning author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 'A wonderful tribute to the restless audacious [and] creative spirit that pushes a culture beyond convention and complacency and toward something new... fascinating' MAGGIE DOHERTY, award winning author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s