ABSTRACT
Juan Angel Silén points out in his book La generatión de escritores del 70 that one of the characteristics of the world view of that “generation” is the problem of the “double exploitation of women.” 1 Books such as La lucha obrera en Puerto Rico (1971) by Angel Quintero Rivera, Hacia una visión positiva del puertorriqueño (1972) by Silén and La mujer en la lucha de hoy(1973) contribute to an “ideological alienation between the young writers and the generation of the 1950s in regard to the problem of the exploitation of women.” 2 The speakers at a recent forum on the short story sponsored by the Pen Club of Puerto Rico agreed that the new focus on the woman question is perhaps one of the cohesive elements of the so-called Generation of the 1970s. 3
