>The *are* in many clear ways male-centric, and at least one friend simply can't read them for that reason. On the other >hand, it was in one of the Skylark books that Dorothy insists on strapping on her guns and going with Seaton on a critical >mission, and makes him accept it, and makes him acknowledge afterwards that that was where she belonged. Even though they >had a young child (left with safe reliable people at the time). And in the 2 Galaxy Primes books, the males & females are equal. The female Earth prime is (what would now be called agressively feminist). It didn't strike me when I first read the books, because the Women's lib movement was just getting started. The books were however quite old even then. Regards Mark