Ok, the woman that I chose is Sor Juana
Ines De La Cruz
Her real name was Juana Ines de Asbaje y
Ramirez de Santillana, She was born in San Miguel Nepantha in November 12,
1651, and died in Ciudad de Mexico, in April 17, 1695. Her fathers
were Isabel Ramirez and Manuel de Asbaje She was religious and
a novohispan writer of Barroco in the Gold Century; also, she was very awarded
for her works.
Sor Juana Ines learned to write and read
early, she belonged to the Antonio De Toledo Y Salazar court. In 1667 she
started her religious life to devote herself to the literature. In 1664,
aged 16, Juana was sent to live in Ciudad de Mexico. She asked her mother's
permission to disguise herself as a male student so that she could enter the
university there. Not being allowed to do this, she continued her studies
privately.The viceroy, wishing to test the learning and intelligence of this 17
year old, invited several theologians, jurists, philosophers, and poets to a
meeting, during which she had to answer, unprepared, many questions, and
explain several difficult points on various scientific and literary subjects.
The manner in which she acquitted herself astonished all present, and greatly
increased her reputation. Her literary accomplishments garnered her fame
throughout New Spain. She was much admired in the viceregal court, and declined
several proposals of marriage.
The door to learning then burst open -- the
young prodigy would embark upon a life shaped and shaken by intellectual
inquiry. She quickly gained renown in society and became a lady-in-waiting in
the court of the Spanish viceroy. Yet she soon left the court for the nunnery;
practically speaking, this was the best way for an illegitimately born woman to
secure the time and resources for scholarship.
But Sor Juana did not shut herself away in an ascetic cell. She started out as
a novice in the Carmelite order, but the order's predilection for little sleep
and self-flagellation repelled her after a few months. Eventually she found a
sect that was more her speed as a lady of letters and a former courtier: the
order of San Jerónimo gave her an entire suite of her own, complete with
bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, library, and servant. Her library -- which held
Mexico’s largest book collection -- developed into a meeting-place for the
intellectual elite. Those who frequented the salon included future viceroy
Marquis de La Laguna and the Countess de Pareda, known to her intimates as
Maria Luisa.
Maria Luisa and Sor Juana embarked on a passionate friendship that may have
crossed the boundaries of the propriety of the day. In any case, it produced
decidedly amorous poetry. Sor Juana wrote, "That you're a woman far away
is no hindrance to my love: for the soul, as you well know, distance and sex
don't count." Whether she was a lesbian by modern-day standards is
unclear, and probably irrelevant. What is clear is that her poetry expresses a
spiritual solidarity with women, a sublime affinity that transcends sex. That
this solidarity excluded men is apparent in her anti-male work -- in "You
Men," the accused are a sniveling bunch "adept at wrongly faulting
womankind."
However, it was not the Sapphic content of her verses that upset Sor Juana's
contemporaries. Rather, she drew fire after a private letter criticizing a
member of the clergy was published without her permission. When the Archbishop
of Mexico tried to silence her, she wrote a defense entitled "La Respuesta."
This letter is her defining work -- and the instrument of her downfall. Sor
Juana turned around the logic used by the Church to justify her oppression and
subverted it into a magnificent defense for women's intellectual rights and
education. Though the letter’s tone is superficially humble, Sor Juana
forcefully insists that women have a natural right to the mind. Her use of
biblical evidence to support her call for strong, educated women is downright
clever -- and has earned her recognition for her rhetorical skills. Naturally,
"La Respuesta" brought indignation from the Church and unwanted
attention from the Inquisition. To save herself, Sor Juana was forced to stop
writing and to give up her books. She died a nun’s death in 1695, succumbing to
illness while caring for the poor during an epidemic.
My opinion about the woman.
To me, every day of the year are of the
woman, because is the most important and especial that god put us over the
earth, with her values, love, virtues, delicacy, can be our mothers, sisters,
uncles, nieces, cousins, girlfriends, friends, everytime the will be arranged
to help us and make us company. Actually the woman and the men are on equal to
make diferent works or charges, not like before, when the woman rights where
violated by the male chauvinist feeling. The men dont agrees that the woman
works, for this reason the woman depended of her husband and she only can clean
and organize the home, fortunately, today isn´t feel like before. Womans, I
wish you the best for this day and to all the other days; Happy Woman´s Day.
I hope you liked my job, soon I will do
the
essay and the other things.
