Ooh, I have some of these books and never read them, but NG's always been v highly recommended to me.

when men write them the societies are fascistic, ant-like, and often prostrate themselves with gratitude at the arrival of male saviors

That reminds me of Joanna Russ saying in DV something like of male attempts to imagine female societies, it was better not to speak ("'He will be my concubine for tonight,' the Empress of Zar said coldly").