![]() ![]() She is the author of Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism, and The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It (2017). Joanna Scutts is a literary critic and cultural historian. In Hotbed, author Joanna Scutts illuminates the dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideas. ![]() 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. Their club, at the heart of America’s bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics. They were socialites and socialists reformers and revolutionaries artists, writers, and scientists. ![]() Its members were passionate advocates of free love, equal marriage, and easier divorce. ![]() It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club. 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. ![]()
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