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 (CA)
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781541647176

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/14/2022
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
Library Journal 05/01/2022 pg. 100