ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the interface between women at work and the novel Amado Amo by the Spanish novelist, Rosa Montero. It examines the legal and social changes, which occurred during the 1970s and 1980s, affecting women and their working lives. The chapter looks at issues raised by the novel. As Rosa Montero indicates, in the chapter dealing with what she terms ‘the silent revolution’, ‘women provide a particularly good example of the speed of change in recent Spanish society and of the unique vitality that has resulted’. Amado Amo recasts the theme of the earlier novel. However, there are marked differences in the approach taken in the two novels. In Amado Amo, the reader has an active role in reconstructing the true meaning of events and in decoding the feminine voice. The act of creating a female voice itself develops solidarity among readers of Amado Amo.
