Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico analyzes a series of intellectual and cultural spheres in seventeenth-century Mexico-the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, education and classical learning, and publishing and printing-through the writings of the famous nun. Examining the masculine contours of this institutional knowledge, the book demonstrates how Sor Juana successfully and skillfully writes herself into the most important debates of the time.