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The dazzling story of the early feminists who blazed a trail for
the movement's most radical ideas New York City, 1912: in downtown
Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to
change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a
secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of
women's suffrage, labour rights, equal marriage and free love. They
were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries;
artists, writers and scientists. Hotbed is the never-before-told
story of the club whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed
an international feminist agenda into a modern way of life. For
readers who loved Mo Moulton's Mutual Admiration Society and
Francesca Wade's Square Haunting.
The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative
years between suffrage and the sixties, when, thanks to the
glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis, single women boldly claimed
and enjoyed their independence. Gone were the days of the flirty
flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the
independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue
when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and
Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque
wit, she urged spinsters, divorcee and "old maids" to shed
derogatory labels and take control of their lives, and her
philosophy became a phenomenon. In a style as irresistible as
Hillis's own, Joanna Scutts explores the revolutionary years
following the Live-Alone movement, when the status of these "brazen
ladies" peaked and then collapsed. By painting the wider picture,
Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis's career was, spanning
decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message
with every life experience, Hillis proved that guts, grace and
perseverance would always be in vogue.
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