Etiqueta: Juana Inés de la Cruz

  • Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision

    Osama y los peligros de la perspectiva cónica (Spanish) Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision Without meaning to do so, in 1690 the famous Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz demonstrated, with her life and death, that a person can be terribly censured by means of the publication of her own texts. Something similar…

  • The Imperfect Sex. Why Is Sor Juana Not a Saint?

    El sexo imperfecto. ¿Por qué sor Juana no puede ser santa? Monthly Review The Imperfect Sex. Why Is Sor Juana Not a Saint? Dr. Jorge Majfud Lincoln University Every hegemonic power in every historical period establishes the limits of what is normal and, consequently, of what is natural.  Thus, the power that ordered patriarchal society…