{"product_id":"hotbed-9780715654743","title":"Hotbed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe never-before-told story of the club whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed an international feminist agenda into a modern way of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Joanna Scutts’ fascinating secret US club of early twentieth-century feminists… An enthralling story of rebellion but also of the power of female friendship… Rigorous social history is enlivened by brio and belief throughout’ \u003cstrong\u003eHephzibah Anderson, \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Sets out to recover these forgotten activists, women who were engaged in some of the most important campaigns of the twentieth century... A series of illuminating vignettes that remind us how far feminism has come over the past century, but also how much remains familiar and yet to be achieved’ \u003cstrong\u003eKathryn Hughes, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[A] lively and absorbing new social history… it was only after I read \u003cem\u003eHotbed \u003c\/em\u003ethat I realized the type of feminist friendship from which I am more directly descended was that of the Heterodites' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Incredibly resonant in today’s times, and a profound read' \u003cstrong\u003eFiona Davis, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lions of Fifth Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Deeply researched and deftly rendered... a spirited, inspiring history' \u003cstrong\u003eLauren Elkin, author of \u003cem\u003eFlâneuse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A transporting tour-de-force of storytelling' \u003cstrong\u003eJanice P. Nimura, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Doctors Blackwell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Spirit and panache... one for anyone interested in the history of feminism, friendship, or New York City' \u003cstrong\u003eRuth Franklin, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eShirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful tribute to the \"restless audacious [and] creative spirit\" that pushes a culture beyond convention and complacency and toward something new... fascinating' \u003cstrong\u003eMaggie Doherty, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This enlightening book covers the first ten or so years of the club’s existence. It is also the story of the early feminist movement in the US, and highlights the underacknowledged part that these activist women played in psychology, education, theatre, journalism, anti-lynching legislation and the early-twentieth-century American labour movement’ \u003cstrong\u003eAnn Kennedy Smith, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A deeply researched and kinetic historical telling of Heterodoxy’s fruitful, if also fraught, period, from its inception until the early 1920s. In vibrant prose that summons the idealism and daring of the very existence of Heterodoxy as a center for sisterhood and women-led political thought, Scutts brings to life the stories of women who formed friendships among their ranks, the majority of whom were upper-middle-class authors, journalists, sociologists and artists’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Joanna Scutts hones in on one particularly fascinating corner of this world: the Heterodoxy Club, a coterie of women that included Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Kimball, Alison Turnbull Hopkins, and Susan Glaspell, among other influential figures. Hotbed brings you to the heart of the social world that sustained and supported them, and it is filled with fascinating details for anyone remotely interested in this history’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLitHub\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duckworth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865628455255,"sku":"9780715654743","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780715654743.jpg?v=1722274826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hotbed-9780715654743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}