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* Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a feminist writer and nun born in what is today called Mexico in 1651.
* At age sixteen, she entered the convent of the order of St. Jerome, which allowed her continue her studies in peace and came under the protection of the court.
*Was renowned and criticized for the poetry and plays she wrote.

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Woman's Right to an Education:

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* It is right and proper that women should be able to get an education.
as it does not have to get in the way of a woman's duties but can be apart of them.
*Women are beings of logic and rational thought.
- In fact, it is men who are doing the irrational thinking.
* Knowledge of human art and science is necessary to understand theology.
*Appearances can be deceiving.
*In turn, she also believed in empiricism.
*Marriage is an impediment to learning.
* She advocated for Neoplatonism.

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Summary of a Specific Work- "Response of the Poet to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz."

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Summary of a Specific Work- "Response of the Poet to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz."

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Objective: In this letter, De La Cruz defends the right of women to have an education.
Summary:
*States that she has not been persecuted for her wisdom but rather for her love of learning.
*Says that Peter wasn't wise either but was persecuted for his love of knowledge.
* Says she herself is not wise, but her pursuit of wisdom makes her vulnerable to persecution, and people have tried to bar her from learning, which can be seen in her Abbess ordering her not to read books.
*Says that keeping her from her books does not keep her from learning as life tempts her insatiably curious mind with many opportunities for learning, including in cooking.
*Shows that learning is a suitable pastime for women.
* Reiterates that she doesn't need books, but she sure does like them.
* Closes by saying that although this hunger for learning may be considered meritorious in some, it is not so in herself as she has no choice but to learn, and she wouldn't trust what she does know anyway.

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* Overall, I appreciate the message that De La Cruz is sending here.
* Two Questions though:
*First: Why does she say that Peter was persecuted for his pursuit of knowledge?
*He's not; he is being persecuted for his relationship with a controversial religious leader.
* While it is fair to say that he had a relationship with Jesus because he wanted to pursue spiritual wisdom, it is not accurate to say that he was persecuted for pursuing wisdom itself.
* Thus, was actually persecuted for the method through which he chose to pursue knowledge.

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*https://www.historytoday.com/mexican-martyr
*https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoplatonism/
*https://amazingwomeninhistory.com/sor-juana-ines-de-la-cruz-self-taught-scholar-poet-spain/
*https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sor-Juana-Ines-de-la-Cruz
*https://www.she-philosopher.com/library/juana-kitchen-philosophy_Pt2.html
*https://poets.org/poet/sor-juana-ines-de-la-cruz

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Portrait of De La Cruz

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* De La Cruz would cut her hair whenever she missed a self-imposed deadline because her hair grew faster than she could learn.
* She became fluent in Latin after twenty lessons.

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Shorn hair

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Second question:
* "How can one argue that learning for women is right and proper across the board because the woman's place is the kitchen it is right and proper to learn while cooking?"
* Seems like a pretty large generalization, given the specificity of the scenario she presents.
* If I were to say: Because it is right and proper for one to wear a green tee-shirt at a rally advocating for an environmental cause, it is right to wear a green shirt to a funeral, I would be wrong.
* What is right and proper in one situation does not have to be right and proper in another.

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* She is considered the first great Latin American Poet.
* She died from the plague while helping care for people with the plague.

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In 'Ratatouille,' Remy learns about himself and life through the act of cooking.

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She was known for both religious and secular romantic poetry:

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Politely contesting

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is belief that one can attain knowledge through sense-experience.

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This fella knows that flowers have a nice fragrance because he can smell them.

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is the belief that perfection and therefore happiness can be attained in one's life on Earth.

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Just some assorted zany portraits of De La Cruz