Sor Juana In�de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico - Paperback

by Stephanie Kirk (Author)

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