ABSTRACT
In her essay, “Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory,” Robyn Wiegman analyzes the “constructedness of masculinity” (43) and enumerates men’s traditional gender roles, including “heterosexuality, fatherhood, family governance, soldiery, and citizenry” (43). She goes on to say that these roles comprise “a set of prescriptive norms that contain potential contradictions within and between men” (43). These adult male gender roles certainly t the Francoist paradigm of men in the military and as heads of household, roles that are expanded upon and deconstructed in Alberto Méndez’s four-part linked story collection, Los girasoles ciegos (Anagrama, 2004).
