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The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movements 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 Americas bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics. But it was the womens 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.
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In Joanna Scuttss capable hands, the individual lives of the members of the Heterodoxy Club become a prism through which to examine the defining issues of New York City in the early 1900s, from suffrage to workers rights, from racism to sexism. Incredibly resonant in todays times, and a profound read.
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fi fth Avenue
Scutts treats these world-changing feminists and activists as they treated each other: with clarity, candor, and warmth. Hotbed is both a formidable work of scholarship and a transporting tour de force of storytelling. The women of the secret club known as Heterodoxy would surely have recruited Scutts as one of their own.
Janice P. Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism is a spirited, inspiring history of a little-known enclave of feminist movers and shakers in an expertly evoked early twentieth-century Greenwich Village. How I long to visit! But then, reading Scuttss book, I almost feel as if I have. Deeply researched and deftly rendered, Hotbed is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in feminism, feminist history, and the power of the city to help women change their lives.
Lauren Elkin, author of Flneuse
With spirit and panache, Scuttss lively Hotbed tells the little-known story of Heterodoxy, an early twentieth-century society of women that set the gears in motion for the revolution that soon followed. Catnip for anyone interested in the history of feminism, friendship, or New York City.
Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson
In this fascinating book, Scutts introduces us to the women behind some of the early twentieth centurys most radical and important movements: suffragism, prison reform, free love, organized labor, antiracism, pacifism, and, of course, feminism. Scutts is an able guide to this historical milieu, one made up of doctors and writers, psychoanalysts and journalists, organizers and hostesses, mothers and wives. Hotbed is a wonderful tribute to the restless audacious [and] creative spirit that pushes a culture beyond convention and complacency and toward something new.
Maggie Doherty, author of The Equivalents
A vibrant tale of the radical political and social activism swirling through New York Citys Greenwich Village in the early 20th century. Scuttss comprehensive account skillfully situates Heterodoxys members at the forefront of the eras most important movements for change and renders lively portraits of suffrage parades, labor strikes, and birth-control advocacy. This feminist history shines.
Publishers Weekly
An enlightening contribution to the history of feminism.
Kirkus
Copyright 2022 by Joanna Scutts
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Scutts, Joanna, author.
Title: Hotbed : bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism / Joanna Scutts.
Description: First edition. | New York : Seal Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021050666 | ISBN 9781541647176 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781541647169 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Heterodoxy (Club)History. | FeminismNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th century. | Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)History20th century.
Classification: LCC HQ1906.N5 S39 2022 | DDC 305.420907471Cdc23/eng/20211118
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021050666
ISBNs: 9781541647176 (hardcover), 9781541647169 (ebook)
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To Ali, Lucy, Grace, Sarah, and Susan,
My own charmed circle,
In love & friendship
On Saturday afternoon, in a place that feels, just then, like the brightly pulsing center of the universe, a group of women gathers to talk about the world, and their place in it. They havent come farphysically, at least. Most have walked: from shared apartments, boardinghouses, and cooperative lodgings, or from red-brick mansions and smaller family homes, to a townhouse on MacDougal Street, in the middle of a busy, scruffy block just below Washington Square Park, the heart of the bohemian New York neighborhood they call Greenwich Village.
At the head of the table in Pollys, a pretty woman in her early forties with a pile of dark-gold hair raps a gavel on the tabletop and brings the meeting to order. The women around the table describe themselves as the most unruly and individualistic females you ever fell among, and pride themselves on their voracious interests and varied outlooks. To give each other space to doubt and to disagree, the women keep no records of their meetings. They give their secret, unruly club a name that celebrates the difference of opinion: Heterodoxy .
One thing distinguishes the chatter at this gathering from the usual lunchtime buzz: the voices are exclusively feminine. This doesnt mean its much quieter than any other afternoon or that theres no argument (or, indeed, flirting). But it does change the atmosphere, just a little. In almost every other club and society and discussion group in the bohemian Village, political or artistic or purely social, men are part of the conversation, and their voices tend to carry. It is hard to talk over them, to interrupt or correct, without being labeled stubborn or strident. Among women, it is easier to be heard. At heart, that is the simple idea that the clubs founder, Marie Jenney Howe, uses to gather the prominent women of her acquaintance into yet another club. What it will becomea network of mutual support whose legacy runs long and deep in the lives of its membersshe has no idea, on that first Saturday afternoon.
The women around the table belong to many other groups: leagues, associations, societies, and organizations of all stripes crowd their schedules. They are veterans of social reform efforts and tireless in their work for an array of causes. Its how women, denied the vote, get things done. This club is different, however, because it isnt trying to do anything or change anything. A unique hybrid of the politically oriented Progressive Era womens clubs and the freewheeling, mixed-sex discussion groups that proliferate in Greenwich Village in the early 1900s, Heterodoxy is the easiest of clubs no duties or obligations. Its enough simply to show up.
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