Mexican Feminists - Juana Ines de La Cruz, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Rosario Ybarra, Dolores Jimenez y Muro (Paperback)

Chapters: Juana Ines de La Cruz, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Rosario Ybarra, Dolores Jimenez Y Muro, Patricia Mercado, Norma Andrade. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sor (Sister) Juana Ines de la Cruz (12 November 1648/51 17 April 1695), fully Juana Ines de Asbaje y Ramirez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar, poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire, she is considered today a Mexican writer, and stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican literature. A portrait of Juana during her youth in 1666, which states she was 15 at the time, when she first entered the viceregal court Juana de Asbaje was born in San Miguel Nepantla, the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman, at a time when bloodlines strictly dictated class and status. Her mother was born in Yecapixtla. Her grandfather owned property in Amecameca and Juana spent her early years living with her mother on his hacienda, Panoaya. Juana was a gifted child who hid in the hacienda chapel to read her grandfather's books from the adjoining library, something forbidden to girls. She learned how to read and write at the age of three. By age five, she could do accounts, and at age eight she composed a poem on the holy sacrament. By adolescence, she had mastered Greek logic, and at age thirteen she was teaching Latin to young children. She also learned nahuatl, and she wrote some short poems in that language. In 1664, at age sixteen, Juana was sent to live in Mexico City. She asked her parents' permission to disguise herself as a male student so that she could enter the university. Not being allowed to do this, she continued her studies privately. She came under the tutelage o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=363533