October 3, 2022: Joanna Scutts, author of The Extra Woman, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review – Topic: HOTBED: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
HOTBED Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
by Joanna Scutts
Deep in the heart of New York City, nearly a decade before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, a revolution began. Some of the most outspoken and ambitious female figures of their time—from artists and journalists to lawyers, social workers, and scientists—gathered in Greenwich Village for the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a collective of visionary women whose imaginations created not only a community, but a movement for gender equality.
In HOTBED: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (Seal Press; June 7, 2022), Joanna Scutts employs her training as a historian and literary critic to rescue the stories of these women and their extraordinary friendships. Even though Heterodoxy members kept no written records of their secret meetings, she navigates the wealth of information they left behind—memoirs, plays, poems, novels, lectures, interviews, and even film appearances—to compose a probing history of feminism’s origins, from the words of some of its earliest pioneers.
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