Women in utopia are the equal of men in politics, work, marriage and academia. In dystopia their energy is consumed in competing for the favours of powerful and wealthy men. Now, although none of these texts referred to were written in the sixties, we can see them as a result of the thinking that came with that decade. It is not hard to see sci-fi feminist writers such as Ursula Le Guin, who began writing in the sixties, developing the ideas and styles learnt during the decade in their fiction of the 1970's and 80's. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974) contrasts an egalitarian utopia with an anti-utopia that closely mimics that of present day Western society, but where we can truly see as a text radically influenced by the sixties is the fact it is not just a feminist utopia; it is even more so an ecotopia (i.e. an ecological utopia). In fact, most feminist utopias adhere to this format. It is very hard to see an ideological world of sexual equality and harmony with nature being presented in an era preceding the sixties. However, unlike the feminist utopia, ecotopia never seemed to reach the same heights. The rediscovery and reassessment of William Morris" News From Nowhere (1890), which set the ecotopian template, inspired Aldous Huxley to revisit his own dystopian template of Brave New World with the novel Island (1962), a marriage of Buddhist philosophy with Western science. This started the trend, but for a long time it remained an isolated example, even though the ecological movement developed strongly in the 1960's and 1970's. Its main literary expression was, like most forms of utopia/dystopia, to be found in science fiction. Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) is one of the best examples with its portrayal of the desert dwelling Fremen mastering their inhospitable habitat by ecological understanding. However, it is still a curiously underused sub-genre, especially in the face of the rise of environmental awareness in the 1960's.