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In Sor Juana Inés de los angeles Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text, Yugar invitations you to accompany Sor Juana Inés de l. a. Cruz, a seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist, on her lifelong trip inside 3 groups of ladies within the Americas. Sor Juana's aim was once to reconcile inequalities among women and men in primary Mexico and among the Spaniards and the indigenous Nahua inhabitants of latest Spain. Yugar reconstructs a her-story narrative via research of 2 basic texts Sor Juana wrote en sus propias palabras (in her personal words), El Sueño (The Dream) and La Respuesta (The Answer). Yugar creates a historically-based narrative during which Sor Juana's sueño of a extra simply international turns into a dwelling nightmare haunted via misogyny within the type of the church, the Spanish Tribunal, Jesuits, and more--all looking her destruction. within the strategy, Sor Juana "hoists [them] with their very own petard." In seventeenth-century colonial Mexico, simply as her Latina sisters within the Americas are doing this present day, Sor Juana used her pluma (pen) to create counternarratives within which the knowledge of girls and the Nahua tell her sueño of a extra simply international for all.

"Theresa Ann Yugar's e-book elaborates the significance of Sor Juana Inés de los angeles Cruz, the major seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist within the Americas. Yugar's paintings on Sor Juana because the foundational determine for Latina feminism and ecofeminism within the Americas merits extensive attractiveness and examining. I hugely suggest it."
--Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity college, Cambridge, MA

"Theresa Yugar's inventive reconstruction of the lifetime of Sor Juana de l. a. Cruz locates the seventeenth-century student in the framework of liberation theology and ecofeminism. She demonstrates the ways in which groups of girls with whom the author lived inspired Sor Juana's considering patriarchy and hierarchy. additional, she exhibits how average mess ups formed the nun's perspectives in regards to the setting. Yugar for this reason enlarges and expands our knowing of the importance of Sor Juana de los angeles Cruz, taking scholarly concerns of this determine in new directions."
--Rebecca Moore, San Diego country college, San Diego, CA

"Theresa Yugar has written a clean booklet on a feminist theology that areas Sor Juana Inés de l. a. Cruz on the headwaters of Latina feminism and ecofeminism. In laying off new gentle in this vital determine who lived and wrote in seventeenth-century colonial New Spain, Yugar makes use of her personal feminist eyes to transparent away patriarchal preconceptions approximately Sor Juana. Yugar is a promising, emerging feminist pupil whose new booklet is characterised via thorough learn, engaging writing, and pleasant presentation."
--Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Georgetown collage, Washington, DC

"Like many daring girls, Sor Juana Inés de los angeles Cruz should be interpreted as 'ahead of her time.' Theresa Yugar sincerely indicates that Sor Juana--in her intelligence, wit, and candor--occupies her specified ancient second and social position, but she relates on to modern feminist and ecofeminist issues. Yugar's ebook is an efficient learn for an individual drawn to Mesoamerican and colonial background, women's experiences in faith, and Catholic feminism."
--Sarah Robinson, Claremont Graduate college, Claremont, CA

"Yugar deals a modern feminist reconstruction of the concept of Latin America's most famed lady highbrow, Sor Juana Inés de los angeles Cruz. In a brand new interpretation that would be inspirational to many readers, Yugar's Sor Juana is a fiery critic of the church magisterium and a visionary who dreamed of a civilization that valued indigenous peoples."
--Jennifer Scheper Hughes, collage of California, Riverside, CA

Theresa A. Yugar is an alumna of Claremont Graduate college and Harvard Divinity college within the self-discipline of Women's reviews in faith. As a Latina feminist liberation theologian, she created a Latin