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Early Modern · 1691
Reply to Sister Filotea
Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
Juana Inés de la Cruz · 1648–1695
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What it is
A Mexican nun answers a bishop who told her to give up study, defending a woman's right to learn from scripture, from the fathers, and from her own experience.
Why it lasted
The founding document of feminism in the Americas. She was pressured into silence soon after and died nursing plague victims four years later.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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