Product Description: "[The Answer] is eloquent, sardonic, learned and, particularly in its autobiographical part, of great freshness."-The Times Literary Supplement"One of the landmarks of Renaissance literature and . . . in the history of intellectual freedom...read more

Product Description: Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719)―mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an Augustinian convent―inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the same time included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowning classes in New Spain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Outstanding edition and translation into English of Sor Juana's intellectual tour de force. Includes an excellent introduction, chronology, notes, and critical commentary. Both scholarly remarks and Sor Juana's work are essential reading for scholars, specialists, students of all levels, and the general reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

'Outstanding edition and translation into English of Sor Juana's intellectual tour de force. Includes an excellent introduction, chronology, notes, and critical commentary. Both scholarly remarks and Sor Juana's work are essential reading for scholars, specialists, students of all levels, and the general reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

A life of the seventeenth-century poet, intellectual, and feminist who became a nun and eventually gave up secular learning, places her in her times and in Spanish intellectual tradition, and examines the contradictions in her personality.