Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Salomé Ureña de Henríquez is one of the most influential poets of the Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century. Her roles as a daughter, writer, patriot, teacher, wife, and mother blended throughout her life, and inspired her acclaimed poems. As an advocate for women’s education, she opened the doors of higher education to the women of her period and then on.

Francis Martinez  Literary Analysis “First Muse”        The story “First Muse” by Julia Alvarez tell us about her childhood in the Dominican  Republic and her life in the United States. Since she started reading the thousand and one  night book under her bed she saw herself reflected in the dark haired almond eyed girl on the  book cover. Alvarez compared herself with the bright ambitious girl stuck in a kingdom that  didn”t think female were very important. Scheherazade gave Julia the courage to explore the  power of storytelling. When Alvarez came to the United States it was very difficult for her  especially for a child who got teased on the playground because of her accent. Julia had a lot  of obstacle in her life but she overcome all of them and became a writer.    Alvarez childhood in the Dominican Republic was not the best. According to the article  “She was living in another country and in another language under a cruel dictatorship” She  didn’t like the life that her parents decided for her. When she was only three months her  parents moved back to the Dominican Republic but they never imagined how different were  going to be their  lives back there. Her father was plotting to overthrow and she was forced to  go to school everyday even if she didn’t want to. Her education was a colonialist one, not  imposed from the outside but from the within her own family. The thousand and one night  books was the only thing that keep her alive.    Julia path as a writer began after she moved back to the United States. When she  started school she didn't understand the English language so well reason why her classmate  bullied her. The article states that “ I can see that my path as a writer began in that  playground. Somewhere inside, where we make promises to ourselves. I told myself I would  learn English so well that Americans would sit up and notice. I told myself that one day I  would express myself in a way that would make those boys feel bad they had tormented me”  In other words Julia Alvarez path as a writer began on her school playground after some of  her classmate started to bother her because she didn’t understand the English language. She  promised to herself that she’ll learn English one day and she’ll come back and show them that  she succeed.     Everyone in Julia family suggested her to get married before she became a writer. Her  mother and aunts told her “to be smart and get married while you’re still young and pretty and  can attract a good man. Have your children while you’re still young and energetic and have  the energy for children. You can always write” Julia family’s wanted her to has her family  before she became a writer. Julia got married twice and before she turned thirty she was  divorced. Both marriages were brief. When Julia was married she didn’t write a lot, but  Scheherazade was there in her head causing trouble, waking her up in the middle of the night  with her stories of the life she could be leaving if she trusted herself, if she became her own  women, if she followed her heart’s desire and brought forth what was inside her to brief forth.  Ten year after her second marriage happiness surprised Julia, she knew the man who  became her third husband. The true companero for the women she had become.    The “first Muse” by Julia Alvarez show us that we have to overcome our obstacle in  order to get successful. Julia had to deal with a dictatorship and bullying at her school but that  didn’t stop her to become a writer. She got married and divorced twice but at the end she met  the perfect man for the women she had become. Julia was glad that Sheherazade came into  her life and into her imagination so early. She was her first muse long before she knew what a 

There has been a nuclear war. Although One Hundred Years of Solitude, by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a fiction, it will serve the purpose of analyzing women’s role in the Colombian society from the 1850s to the 1950s. For the pertinence of this essay, this classic book will be analyzed as if it were a primary source. Garcia Marquez portrays a society where men and women share the power, although maybe on different spheres. Even though one can see that there are some very strong women in this book, sexism and male domination is still present, and one could say that this reflects the Colombian society of the time. We will first see what’s the scope of power that each sex has influence on, than understand how Garcia Marquez pictures strong

Maria Alejandrina Cervantes—Commentary—Chronicle of a Death Foretold “I dreamed that a woman was coming into the room with a little girl in her arms, and that the child was chewing without stopping to take a breath, and that half-chewed kernels of corn were falling into the woman’s brassiere. The woman said to me: ‘She crunches like a nutty nuthatch, kind of sloppy, kind of slurpy.’ Suddenly I felt the anxious fingers that were undoing the buttons of my shirt, and I caught the dangerous smell of the beast of love lying on my back, and I felt myself sinking into the delights of quicksand of her tenderness.” (89-90).

During the Mexican Revolution, Mexico as a nation torn in many directions, people gave up simple farming lives to take up arms against causes that many of them did not fully understand. Gender roles during the period in Mexico were exceptionally degrading towards women. Having little more rights than slaves and treated as trophies or property more than human beings, women role in society was nothing near that of a man’s. In The Underdogs, Mariano Anzuela highlights the issue of gender roles by continuously illustrating the punitive role of women and their mistreatment. Augmenting Anzuelas work with citations from Oscar Lewis and Stephanie Smith will paint a picture of the degrading gender roles for women during the Mexican Revolution. Highlighted points brought up by Azuela are how men speak with and treat women, women’s place in society, and general disregard for women’s feelings.

In colonial Latin America, one aspect of life that was constantly under attack and had to be guarded at all costs was the ideal of one's Honour. Women in colonial Latin America had to especially be on their guard to protect their honour, as an unanswered attack to their honour could ruin a family's honour. But if a woman's honour was attacked there were ways for her to protect it. The honour women possessed at the time was said to be not as important as the honour of a man, but it is, in fact, more important then the man's. By using Richard Boyer's document Catarina Maria Complains That Juan Teioa Forcibly Deflowered Her and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera's document Scandal at the Church: Jose de Alfaro Accuses Dona Theresa Bravo and Others of

In Spain and the Spanish colonies in South America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, gender roles were distinct and the opportunity gap was enormous. Catalina de Erauso compares the two roles through her memoir, “Lieutenant Nun,” where she recounts her life as a transvestite in both the new and old world. Through having experienced the structured life of a woman as well as the freedom involved in being a man, de Erauso formed an identity for herself that crossed the boundaries of both genders. Catalina de Erauso’s life demonstrates the gap in freedom and opportunity for women, as compared to men, in the areas of culture, politics and economy, and religion.

Currently Sandra Cisneros resides in San Antonio in a purple house and she describes herself as “nobody’s mother” and “nobody’s wife.” Both Frida Kahlo’s and Cynthia Y. Hernandez’s works convey the idea of having one’s culture limit one’s freedom and individuality. Cisneros and Esperanza are both victims of this idea and realize that the only way to live one’s life freely is to defy the roles and limitations created by one’s culture.

The code was Not only did these women find a place in society other than by the stove, they won the appreciation and respect of men and women around them. Two of the most extraordinary of these women were Dolores Jimenez y Muro, who was an important political writer, and Hermila Galindo, who was a political speaker and advocate for Carranza’s campaign and regime. Dolores Jimenez y Muro's importance is evident in how she was able to have her voice heard and listened to by high-ranking revolutionary officials. Hermila Galindo's prominence is shown by her distinguished political career and feminist movements.

Never the less, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz set the bar high during her time as far as dedication to venture outside of the realm of what was socially accepted and provide proof that women have the same ability to study, learn, and teach as men did. She wrote with such

SFII Essay 2 TITLE Q: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF HER SILENCE??? Anachronologically deemed a feminist for her writings, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz stood in the New World as a defiant, female Catholic. Through her work, she displays her head-strong character, illuminating the hypocrisy that was flourishing in patriarchal Mexico while simultaneously creating metaphors that clearly showed how she viewed her situation. Moreover, through extenstive allusions, she displays her aptitude, proving that she had one true love in life: the love for learning. Perhaps doomed from the start because of her sex, any time Sor Juana delved into her passion she was bound to hear insolence from a traditional member of society, namely the Bishop of Puebla,

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, as portrayed in Trambley’s play is only concerned with her own desires. She never shows interest in other women’s rights and she never speaks to other

Sor Juana Essay Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz was a woman far beyond her years. Living in a time when society was dominated by men, she disregarded the fact that women during this time were forced to be uncurious objects, whose highest achievement in life was to give birth. Her relentless pursuit to attain knowledge and defy her culture's standards for women is illustrated throughout her writings. In the readings, ("Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotes de la Cruz, the three "Romances" and the "Redondillas"), she spills out her beliefs, feelings and pain in forms of symbolic devices and irony in attempt to erase the differences between men and women as intellectual beings, as well as to argue for a woman's right to pursue

The two poems, “She Complains about Her Fate: She Asserts Her Aversion to Vices and Justifies Her Pleasure in the Muses” and “A Good Face One Should Choose before Dying Rather Than to Expose Oneself to the Outrages of Old Age,” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz both discuss the topic

Natalie House Dr. Delay Historian’s Craft February 27 2017 Project Proposal The Spanish Civil war was a complex and tumultuous whirlwind of combating ideologies through the resulting emphasis on gender differences and maternalism, it played the catalyst in the bolstering prevalence of gender discourse. Although unlike traditional feminist movements, the women of the Spanish Civil War, specifically the Milicianas and Mujeres Libres were primarily in search of a voice in ongoing social revolution and less concerned with the acquisition of political equality. By taking into account the history of the social conditioning of Spanish women, I hope to analyze the changes in the sex-gender system, wrought on by revolution and war by furthering examining