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Salon	"An intellectual, political, and social [institution which] was a powerful phase of women's force previous to the rise of the democratic public forum." These drawing room assemblies for intellectual conversation became, in Britain, Germany and France, the centers of intellectual, political, and social influence. The salon existed in America also; two powerful salons were those of Alice Roosevelt and Mrs J. Borden Harriman. (Mary Ritter Bard 1942; in Ann J. Lane 1977, 223)
Bluestockings	Viewy women who gather for artistic, literary, intellectual and witty exchanges. Critics have used the term to refer to learned, and thus in their minds, unfeminine and pretentious women. The origin of the term is in dispute but was evidently first used in 1750s to refer to women and men in London who gathered for conversation; one of the people attending wore blue worsted instead of black silk stockings. The women who attended were first derisively called 'bluestockingers' and 'Blue Stocking Ladies' and later 'Bluestockings' and 'Blues'. The terms were thus first used to denote informal or homely dress and then to refer to intellectual, literary, or learned women. To "wear your blues" became a metaphor for evenings of intellectual and witty conversation. As the term 'bluestocking' became associated with the women who held salons and who put their energies and emotions into work with each other, it became a term of abuse, with connotations of snob and misfit. The bluestockings, excluded from politics, law, education and employment because they were female, formed an alternative, knowledgeable, supportive, competent and intellectually self-sufficient group. There are many bluestockings today, learning, reading, writing, and exchanging ideas in women's groups. (Susan Conrad 1976; Seon Manley and Susan Belcher 1972; Barbara Schnorrenberg and Jean E. Hunter 1980; Dale Spender 1982b; Edith Rolt Wheeler 1919b)   see also: The Bluestocking Archive http://fay.english.umb.edu/archive/archive2.html
Heterodites	Luncheon club for unorthodox women which flourished in Greenwich Village, New York City, from about 1910 through the 1930s, meeting every other week except in the summer. "it was a meeting place for women of widely divergent political views, from staunch members of the Democratic and Republican parties to Stella Coman Ballantine, anarchist sympathizer and Emma Goldman's niece; from admirers of Senator Robert LaFollett's Progressive Party such as his daughter Fola La Follette, Marie Jenny Howe, Netha Roe and Zona Gale, to the Socialists Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rose Pastor Stokes (both of whom eventually became active Communists) and Katharine Anthony; and from the pacifist founder of the American Union against Militarism, Crystal Eastman, to strong military advocates like Mary Logan Tuckr of the Navy League and the pro-Wilson Daughters of the American Revolution .... The personal lives and relationships of members ran the gamut from conventionally married heterosexual women .... through scandalously divorced members and free-love advocates, to a rather large number of never married women, several of whom were lesbians involved in longterm relationships with each other or non-Heterodoxy women. All of the Heterodoxy club were ardently pro-women supporters who felt strong friendships and contacts with other women were vital to their lives.... For all the fame of some its individual members, Heterodosy barely rates a mention or a footnote in modern published sources ... as if they had disappeared without a trace - not a remakable or unusual fate for women, but damnably aggravating none the less." (Judith Schwarz 1982, 1, ii)   "A tribe of women living on the Island of Manhattan in the North Seas." (Florence Guy Woolson 1919; in Judith Schwarz 1982, 95)
	all the above quotes are from: Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones. A feminst dictionary. Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler. Pandora, 1992 Copies of the book are still available through the University of Illinois Press. http://www.press.uillinois.edu/
Les Salons de Paris	HerSalon feat. Natalie Barney's Salon in Paris together with an image galery of the habitues of the Salon de Barney. Just too bad that HerSalon doesn't dare keeping the records straight and mention the fascistic commitment of the 'wealthy bitch Barney'. http://www.hersalon.com/herstory/barney/barney.htm   Ladies Almanack Djuna Barnes. 1928 The original english version, published by Pagine Lesbiche, Il Web lesbico Italiana. Inspiration for fellow-Saloneresses. http://orlando.women.it/les/ladies/ladies.htm
	'Paris was a woman' Portraits from the Left Bank. Andrea Weiss, HarperSanFrancisco     Women of the Left Bank - Paris, 1900-1940 Shari Benstock. University of Texas Press
	Around the same time Salons were popular in other cities like Berlin and Vienna. This shall be traced, unveiled and described another time .......