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Article: Jack London's Women. (Reviews).
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- California History
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- January 1, 2002
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By Clarice Stasz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001, xvi, 393 pp., $39.95 cloth.)
It was in 1976, the centennial of Jack London's birth, that Clarice Stasz published "Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London." That article cogently described the "New Woman" as portrayed in London's fiction. Moreover, it shattered once and for all the stereotype of London as a he-man who specialized in red-blooded adventure stories for boy-men. Stasz concluded her essay by making it clear that "Jack London is no feminist's dream, but he is a male chauvinist's nightmare."
Over the quarter-century since the publication of that pioneering essay, Stasz has been ...