Sor Juana wrote a withering reply to a bishop who praised her orthodoxy but advised her to restrict herself to activities “more becoming a member of her sex.” Surely the 1st feminist theological work of the Americas. For Sor Juana it was also her last. Afterward she went silent.
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Birthday of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (11/12 1651)—nun, first great poet of Latin America, prodigious scholar, author of the first theological work by a woman in the New World, champion of equality for women in the church. She defended her call to learning as a God-given calling.
