I am not quite sure I am ready to do this blog but will write something about what I’m planning to do with my paper.
I am planning to discuss the social and political environments in which both Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Catherine of Siena lived. Although separated by time about three hundred years and also from different continents, these two women used their writing to argue the rights of women before the Church. Catherine of Siena in medieval times in Italy and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in the 17th century in Mexico seem to communicate similar concerns about the religious leaders of their time.
I guess with Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz I have a close relationship because I have read her work before. I also have the advantage of reading it in Spanish for better understanding and I also feel like I can really related to her work having lived in a colony of Spain. I thought it would be interesting to compare her work with Catherine of Siena because they both use religion as a vehicle for their message. Some of the works that I have read are somewhat difficult for me to understand because of my ignorance of script, however, I find it fascinating that since medieval times women have had issues with the Roman Catholics and their discrimination against women. Today, we still hear voices of women trying to win that battle and the Church has yet to listen.
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