Hotbed : Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism /
On a Saturday afternoon in New York in 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 g...
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New York :
Seal Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.