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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scutts, Joanna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Seal Press, [2022].
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.