Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Juana Ines de la Cruz Sister
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Juana Ines de la Cruz Sister Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Her contemporaries called her the Tenth Muse and the Phoenix of…
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Juana Ines de la Cruz Sister
Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Her contemporaries called her the Tenth Muse and the Phoenix of Mexico, names that continue to resonate. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual.
Thirty other works--playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: First Dream, her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz, her epistolary feminist defense--evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson--of a woman's right to study and to write.