Women' educated. Sr. Juana's life experience and her poet.

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Women Educated
I. Introduction
The seventeenth century was not a good time to be a woman in most areas in world. This is especially true in Mexico where it was customary for women to obey their fathers, and later their husbands, give birth to a few children, keep the house neat, and keep your mouth shut. But, from a young age, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz decided that domestic life was not a path she indented to walk. In 1667, she became a nun because she wanted to learn and develop her intellectual skills. She lived in Mexico City, in the Convent of San Geronimo until she met her death. Sor Juana amassed a vast library which was shockingly huge for a woman of that period. She later began publishing her own poetry, which advocated for women’s rights to education by condemning the societal standards that were upheld during that time.
II. Discussion
For Sor Juana, trouble began when her beneficiary from nobility ended. In 1960, Sor Juana reviewed a well-known homily by Antonio de Vieira. Pretending to be impressed by her, the Bishop of Mexico requested Sor Juana to put her review in writing. The Bishop then published the review without Sor Juana’s knowledge under the pseudonym “Sor Filotea de la Cruz” and attached a letter condemning Sor Juana’s intellectualism as a woman. In response to the Bishop’s action, Sor Juana published a reply titled “Reply to Sor Filotea,” her most famous text. In it, she defended the intellectual rights of women and proposed that all women should freely access education. Sor Juana reprehended the church for ensuring that women remained untutored. Sor Juana then described how she saw education as a tool that can be used to serve God and narrated her sustained struggle in the pursuit of education while living in society that though the education of women was unorthodox.
Few documents of the seventeenth century embrace matters of learning as does “Reply to Sor Filotea” (Arenal & Powell, The Answer, 67). Regarding Sor Juana’s advocacy, the area of focus is compulsory education. Sor Juana states “Oh, how many abuses would be avoided in our land if our older women were as well instructed and knew how to teach as is commanded by St. Paul and my father Jerome” (Arenal & Powell, The Answer, 85). Sor Juana then proceeds to state that society is obliged to employ men since they receive education whereas women suffer from a lack of learning. Since it was a societal norm for men to receive education, many parents allowed their daughters to remain uneducated and uncivilized instead of exposing them to the same conditions men were exposed to. Sor Juana asserts that a lack of intellectual ability could be avoided if the women were educated so that teachings could be tranferred from the older generation to the younger one, just as is done with knitting and other traditional skills (Arenal & Powell, The Answer, 85). The logic here is that if women were well educated, their daughters would also be educated. In effect, there would be a society of educated women.
In “Reply to Sor Filotea” Sor Juana disproved the assertion that God did not want her to study because G...