In 1600, an intellectual revolution was taking place in Europe with the beginning of the Enlightenment. Leonard recounts the hostile circumstances that Sor Juana experienced in her life. However, 4 years earlier, she had written the Reply to Sister Filotea of the Cross (“ Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz”), a magnificent, wise and daring argumentation in favour of women’s rights to education and knowledge, gender equality and freedom of speech. She had abandoned her studies and writing for more than a year. She was born on the 12 th of November 1651, she was hardly 43 years old when she fell ill during an epidemic that decimated the convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico city, (it is not clear if it was a yellow fiver or typhus epidemic). On the 17 th of April 1695 at 4 in the morning, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz died, “the worse nun in the world” as she called herself. Three centuries after Sor (Spanish: Sister) Juana’s death we ask ourselves whether we have developed as a society to guarantee the rights to education, knowledge and gender equality.
Why was it necessary for Sor Juana to speak of herself and of many other women, in order to defend the right of women to knowledge? Discuss.By EditorialOtroAnguloINFO on 1 enero, 2019 in Libros Also, discuss the parts of the letter where Sor Juana speaks about silence.Ģ. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church" (Reader, page 191 quoted by Sor Juana, page 81). But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. Analyze the way Sor Juana discusses this quotation from the New Testament: (1) "Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith. How does she defend her right to write poetry? ġ. Why should some men be prohibited from studying? ġ3. Why does Sor Juana refer to so many women in her letter? ġ1. What is at the top of the ladder of knowledge of arts and sciences? Why is it important to have erudition to understand the Holy Scripture? ġ0. Why does Sor Juana enter the convent and become a nun? What are the advantages that Sor Juana sees in being a nun? Ĩ.
From where does Sor Juana get the books to read when she is a child? Ħ. Why does Sor Juana want to study and learn? ĥ. Why has Sor Juana written little about sacred matters? Ĥ. Who wrote the "Letter Worthy of Athena"? Who published it? ģ. "The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz"Ģ.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Answer/ La Respuesta. READING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR “EXPLORATION OF SELF AND THE WORLD: A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE”
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