Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

About this episode

This episode explores the life and works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th-century Mexican intellectual who championed women's education and challenged misogyny.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th-century Mexican nun, poet, playwright, composer, and all-around intellectual menace to the patriarchy. In this episode of Queens Podcast, we trace Sor Juana’s rise from hacienda library goblin to celebrated court intellectual and how she used wit, logic, and theology to argue that women deserved education because women are people. Radical stuff. Paired with a twist on the Paloma cocktail, we explore her poems like You Foolish Men and essays such as Respuesta a Sor Filotea, works that helped shape modern feminist thought centuries before feminism had a name. Sor Juana did not just challenge misogyny. She out-argued it, and history is still taking notes. Time stamps: 00:00 Introduction and Content Warning 00:36 Meet the Hosts: Katy & Nathan 01:36 Introducing Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 02:56 Patreon Shoutouts and Mocktail Recipe 05:31 Sor Juana's Early Life and Education 14:43 Juana's Move to Mexico City 16:45 Life with the viceroy's court 18:28 Juana's Intellectual Challenge 20:55 Becoming a nun 24:59 Juana's Writing Career Begins 26:08 A Close Relationship with Maria Louisa 30:23 You Foolish Men: A Poem of Hypocrisy 37:57 Juana's Feminist…

People in this episode

Hosts: Katy, Nathan

Topics covered

• feminism
• history
• literature
• women's education
• 17th century
• Mexican culture

Keywords

• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• feminism
• Mexican nun
• poet
• 17th century
• women's rights
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Airwave Media

Books & works: You Foolish Men, Respuesta a Sor Filotea

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