Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

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.

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

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

“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.

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.

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

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz a mind ahead of her times, in a male dominated world where women were excluded from learning higher education and intellectual aspirations. However her destiny had something prepared for her greater than anyone could have ever imagined. From a very early age she had this insatiable hunger of learning. She grew up with no father and substituted that need with knowledge. Born in 1651, Sor Juana lived in San Miguel Nepantla with her single mother and later on moved to Mexico City when she was around seventeen years old. Octavio Paz’s book, “Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith”, is a study of the enigmas that surrounded this young and beautiful woman with amazing intellectual powers but at the same time a mysterious woman

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, originally Juana Ramírez de Asbaje, is a prime example of a strong woman who has faced many obstacles and has overcome skepticism. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is assumed to have been born November, 12, 1651 in Viceroyalty of New Spain which is now present day Mexico. On the other hand, there is a baptismal certificate that shows her birth could have been in 1648, either way, no scholar is quite sure when her official

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz is the religious name for the woman born in 1651 as Juana Ramirez de Asbaje. She lived and worked near Mexico City when the area was still part of and controlled by Spain. Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz was not known in her life as a pioneer of feminism, but her writings have influenced views on women in the church while giving an intellectual identity to Mexico during the time of the Enlightenment.

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 of beauty. Interestingly, the writer of both approach the subject from two different perspectives. They have similarities, both focusing on the fact that beauty is not everything, but one is viewed in comparison to intellect while the other focuses on the lasting nature of beauty.

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

Under the leadership of former CEO Juan Rodriguez Inciarte, Santander Consumer Finance bank expanded from a small three-countries unit into one of the largest and fastest growing companies in the world. During his short tenure of 6 years, Inciarte took advantage of a positive economic trend and invested in Latin America, the U.S, and Eastern Europe. Now, the new CEO Magda Salarich has been tasked with leading the company into the best possible direction for the next 10 years. She must decide whether she should focus on consolidation or keep on expanding the company. Moreover, Salarich must come up with a successful strategy to handle some of the major challenges of having a global business.

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

During the time of the 18th century, opportunities for women were not widely available or were only limited because of the forces of a highly patriarchal society but despite this, one Filipino poetess and considered as “Mother of Philippine Women’s Literature”: Leona Florentino, managed to educate herself. Her works contributed a lot to early movements of feminism which this