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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.

ISBN-13: 9781541647176

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 06-07-2022

Pages: 416

Product Dimensions: 9.50(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.40(d)

Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian, and author of The Extra Woman. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review series “Feminize Your Canon.” She holds a PhD from Columbia University. She lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Little World for Us 1

Chapter 1 Way Down South in Greenwich Village 17

Chapter 2 The Type Has Changed 37

Chapter 3 The Rebel Girls and the Mink Brigade 59

Chapter 4 The New Abolitionists 81

Chapter 5 What We Want Is a Revolution 97

Chapter 6 To Dynamite New York 113

Chapter 7 Femi-what? 141

Chapter 8 Does Mr. Freud Live in the Village? 159

Chapter 9 Suppressed Desires 177

Chapter 10 "The Baby Is the Great Problem" 197

Chapter 11 How Long Must We Wait? 217

Chapter 12 A Woman's War Against War 239

Chapter 13 Pacifism Versus Patriotism 259

Chapter 14 Red Scare, Red Summer 283

Chapter 15 The Future of Feminism 303

Epilogue 321

Acknowledgments 327

Notes 331

Works Cited and Consulted 357

Index 377