ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on three Spanish women writers: well-known and widely read journalist and novelist Rosa Montero Gayo; famous young adult novelist Laura Gallego Garcia; and an unknown biologist and secondary school teacher, Concha Lopez Llamas. It primarily uses ecofeminist ideology from Val Plumwood and Karen Warren. Beatriz and the She-Wolf highlights most blatantly the parallel oppression of women and nature. Moreover, the novel is focused on three types of domination and violence: against women, against wolves, and against traditional cultures. In this novel, Lopez Llamas clearly and repeatedly makes the point of the parallel violence and oppression of women, wolves, and rural lifestyles. In Beatriz and the She-Wolf, the title and structure of the novel places both Beatriz and Oak on the same plane, dispelling any hierarchical domination. In Laura Gallego's fantasy, Where the Trees Sing, people see other interesting aspects. Replicants are prohibited in Labari, unless travelling on a United Nations of the Earth mission.