{"id":144739,"date":"2022-07-22T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144739"},"modified":"2022-06-13T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:56:17","slug":"jim-recommends-hotbed-by-joanna-scutts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144739","title":{"rendered":"Jim Recommends: Hotbed by Joanna Scutts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4958645\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-144740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4958645.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4958645.jpg 387w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4958645-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was working my history degree way back in the mists of time I took a class on the history of feminism. The class was very interesting and at one point the professor made a glancing reference to an organization in Greenwich Village called Heterodoxy. At the time I was interested in studying all kinds of 19th and 20th century radical organizations so I started looking for books about them. There were pitifully few and I remember thinking &#8220;I really wish someone would write a book about Heterodoxy.&#8221; Well 20 years later someone finally has and I can&#8217;t wait to start reading it. &#8211; Jim<\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was the first meeting of \u201cHeterodoxy,\u201d 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\u2019s bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics. But it was the women\u2019s extraordinary friendships that made their unconventional lives possible, as they supported each other in pushing for a better world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59228220-hotbed\">goodreads<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism When I was working my history degree way back in the mists of time I took a class on the history of feminism. 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