-- in its paranoid way, I
>found it interesting and entertaining. I even liked the second book, though
>I never read any further than that. I was not offended by the portraits of
>women I found there, but it also seemed that Herbert was not very aware of
>gender issues.
>
>-- Janice
>
Perhaps he wasn't, but consider that this was the early sixties. Were very
many people like Frank Herbert very aware of gender issues as we define the
term ('aware') today? I think that, were he writing today, you'd be right,
but to apply a nineties sensibility (I'm assuming yours is a nineties
sensibility) to a thing written in the sixties, and probably from a sixties
sensibility, isn't fair to the person who wrote in the sixties.
-Sean
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