La hombría perdida en el tiempo. Masculinidad y nación española a finales del siglo xix

On Don Juan and Beyond: Masculinity Studies in Modern Spain

“…56 Aresti also defends this position when claiming, 'The crisis of national masculinity in Spain in the context of 1898 was more closely related to the status of the Spanish nation on the international stage … than to the threats posed by the changes in gender relations with women and femininity. 57 Additionally, she devotes one of her works to describing that process of 'belittlement of Spanish men', which occurred chiefly in other European states and in the context of a general debasement of all Latin American countries, presenting it as something far removed from civilization and modernity. 58 Akiko Tsuchiya deviates somewhat from that communion of opinions due to his insistence, on the basis of the oeuvre of Showalter, Felski and Feldman and an analysis of two novels by Clarín and Pardo Bazán, on the effects of the 'new woman' and the 'dandy' on the gender order.…”