Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

History & Biography

“Yugar offers a contemporary feminist reconstruction of the thought of Latin America's most famous woman intellectual, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. In a new interpretation that will 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.”