Would/should Watership down be published in this day and age?

[MuddlingThrew]

My Mum just started ranting at me how she is angry they have changed Alice in Wonderland to placate feminists. My mum is 70 and old fashioned with it, and believes things were better in the old days because both men and women 'new what was expected of them'.

It started me thinking about the rabbits in Water Ship Down. To the best of my recollection not a female rabbit ever makes a decision and they are rescued by the good male rabbits not because they are victims of a brutal regime, but because the Good male rabbits need female rabbits to breed with.
What say ye?

I think there is a lot of wartime experience in it yes. Adams started it as a story he told to his daughters and I think that he was basically doing what parents most want to do, explain to our children why we are who are. But he was talking to two little girls who wanted a story so it came out as a tale about rabbits. The ending is the ending every soldier dreams of - to die naturally at the end of a fulfilled life, surrounded by your children and at home then to go off to whichever Valhalla version of heaven you believe in.