Sor Juana Essay

1. Sor Juana. She was a Spanish nun known for her feminist views and critiques of misogyny. She was interested in science and became a hero to the criollo elite who attempted to encourage Mexican nationalist identities and feminist sentiments. 2.

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Colonial Latin American society in the Seventeenth Century was undergoing a tremendous amount of changes. Society was transforming from a conquering phase into a colonizing phase. New institutions were forming and new people and ideas flooded into the new lands freshly claimed for the Spanish Empire. Two remarkable women, radically different from each other, who lived during this period of change are a lenses through which many of the new institutions and changes can be viewed. Sor Juana and Catalina de Erauso are exceptional women who in no way represent the norm but through their extraordinary tales and by discovering what makes them so extraordinary we can deduce what was the norm and how society functioned during this era of Colonial

Another aspects that Teresa was able to be influential around Early Spain was her male supporters throughout her life. While Teresa had followed male authorities, she had also male followers and supporters throughout her life, such as her editor for her first book, Juan de Ribera and Luis de Leon, and bishops around Avila. Her editors were prepared to justify Teresa’s writing and mystical experiences to the Spanish audience. Teresa had struggle with the dismal misogyny of her days has poignancy because both by conditioning and temperament she experienced a great need for male appreciation to get what she need to accomplished. For example, when Teresa wanted to set up a convent in Avila and needed to buy a property, but woman were not allowed

In the movie I, the Worst of All depicts the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz who was a wealthy woman who turned toward the convent in order to continue her pursuit of knowledge. The movie takes place in the convent in Mexico in the 1600’s. She originally was a woman in waiting in the courts however, she had higher ambitions. Being a women did not allow her to attend University so she became a nun. Sor Juana was very intellect and her poems where recognized everywhere which the movie shows how her work reached even the Queen of Spain. Even though she was knowledge for her wit and intelligence through her play and poems she was still discriminated based on her gender. Throughout the film Sor Juana is in a consent struggle between her and the men

The basis for this experiment was inspired by the evolution canyon in Israel that contained various species of Sordaria Fimicola (S. Fimicola) and more importantly had a tight ecological barrier. The canyon has two slopes that experience vastly different environmental conditions and thus expose organisms who inhabit them with bipolar pressures. Organisms living on the South Facing Slope (SFS) experience higher and more intense amounts of solar radiation, temperature, and drought. While Sordaria who inhabit the North Facing Slope (NFS) receive more cool and humid conditions. Sampled Sordaria from the two slope showed variances in cross-over frequency that occurs during Prophase I of Meiosis. This promising fact lead to the investigation of UV radiation of different types of Sordaria discussed later and promotes the idea that harsh environmental condition, like those experienced on the SFS, can cause variances in cross-over frequency. (Burpee et al., 2017)

Sor Juana established herself not only as a feminist voice in Colonial Mexico but also as one of the most influential writers of her time. Her writing continued to be controversial and, while she wasn’t silenced by the convent, the threatened patriarchy eventually took action. While it is believed that her “writing was an act of defiance” (Bergmann), she also “struggled against the ecclesial authorities that tried to silence her voice” (Gonzalez 102). Sor Juana was not only brave in her publication of her work and going outside of Mexican printing to do so (Kirk) but her work was also a direct commentary on the dominant patriarchy of the time. In response to a bishop who wrote under the disguise of “Sor Filotea,” Sor Juana attempted to defend a woman’s rights to education for the last time. However, she ultimately faced

In “Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Transvestite in the New World” by Catalina de Erauso, a female-born transvestite conquers the Spanish World on her journey to disguise herself as a man and inflicts violence both on and off the battlefield. Catalina discovers her hidden role in society as she compares herself to her brothers advantage in life, as they are granted money and freedom in living their own lives. Erauso decides to take action of this act of inequality by forming a rebellion, as she pledges to threaten the social order.The gender roles allotted to both men and women in the Spanish world represent the significance of societal expectations in order to identify the importance of gender in determining one’s position in the social order in the Spanish World.

Ana Castillo’s novel, So Far From God, propels the reader on a vibrant and surreal journey through the tragic ordeals of Sofi and her four daughters. The first chapter, which offers certain similarities to the Bible’s story of Jesus Christ, in that Sofi’s three year old daughter, La Loca, seems to succumb to a violent and horrifying death, and at the wake, she returns to life with a tale of her journey beyond the veil. This scene creates a notable comparison between the patriarchal religiosity of the story of Jesus Christ and the Chicana-centered resurrection, complete with the hypocrisy of a male-centered system of beliefs, the acts of acquiring selfhood as a female centered savior, and the phenomena of the “death” of the saviors.

From the beginning Julia sought to press the boundaries of both accepted speech as well as the which was considered appropriate for women, and effort that led her to explore and incorporate in her texts previously ignored setting and experiences and to create precarious, conflicted identities.(The Unfolding of Self Poetry of Julia de Burgos) Julia from the start had a driving force that was not going to be stopped by the norms of society, she had a mission to show the world her true identity and the hardships that she experienced.

Anachronologically deemed a feminist for her writings, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz stood in the New World as a defiant, female Catholic. Through her work, she displays her head-strong character, illuminating the hypocrisy that was flourishing in patriarchal Mexico while simultaneously creating metaphors that clearly showed how she viewed her situation. Moreover, through extenstive allusions, she displays her aptitude, proving that she had one true love in life: the love for learning. Perhaps doomed from the start because of her sex, any time Sor Juana delved into her passion she was bound to hear insolence from a traditional member of society, namely the Bishop of Puebla,

Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz was an extremely radical activist for her time. She was known as the “Tenth Muse”, the “Phoenix of Mexico” (Harss pg.6) in many western parts of the world. As a child she grew up with very limited formal education and envied men who were privileged enough to receive primary education, and access to higher education. Sor Juana was a constant defendant of the rights of women, often coming off as inappropriate in her occupation as a nun, and women in the Spanish Empire, making her a threat to the man who was trying to gain power at the time (I deliberately left out his name due to the fact that I felt it would distract from the main person in this- Sor Juana.) Sor Juana was a diverse writer who often switched styles and genres of writing. However, she is well known for her poems that could, “inspire such tenebrous thoughts in the mind of the 20th-century reader.” (Harss pg.3). The scandalousness of her writings are said to be proof of her insanity, and results from the torturous tasks she would inflict upon herself, which were also encouraged by her confessor at the time in an attempt to, “moderate her zeal” (Harss pg.7).

In her novel La Linea, Ann Jaramillo tells the story of fifteen-year-old Miguel, who leaves his home in Mexico to illegally cross the US-Mexican border. He leaves for California, where his parents and two of his sisters have lived for the past seven years. His parents left first, in order to make money for their children to cross la linea later. Miguel and his younger sister Elena thus live with their grandmother on a rancho in the small Mexican village San Jacinto. On his fifteenth birthday, Miguel receives the letter he has waited for his entire life. A letter from his father tells him to go see Don Clemente, a rich and successful immigrant smuggler. Don Clemente provides Miguel with

Not only did these women find a place in society other than by the stove, they won the appreciation and respect of men and women around them. Two of the most extraordinary of these women were Dolores Jimenez y Muro, who was an important political writer, and Hermila Galindo, who was a political speaker and advocate for Carranza’s campaign and regime. Dolores Jimenez y Muro's importance is evident in how she was able to have her voice heard and listened to by high-ranking revolutionary officials. Hermila Galindo's prominence is shown by her distinguished political career and feminist movements.

In colonial Latin America, one aspect of life that was constantly under attack and had to be guarded at all costs was the ideal of one's Honour. Women in colonial Latin America had to especially be on their guard to protect their honour, as an unanswered attack to their honour could ruin a family's honour. But if a woman's honour was attacked there were ways for her to protect it. The honour women possessed at the time was said to be not as important as the honour of a man, but it is, in fact, more important then the man's. By using Richard Boyer's document Catarina Maria Complains That Juan Teioa Forcibly Deflowered Her and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera's document Scandal at the Church: Jose de Alfaro Accuses Dona Theresa Bravo and Others of