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Sor Juana and the right to reason

Sor Juana, a 17th-century Mexican nun, claimed the right to study, question, and write despite living under church authority and female subordination—defending reason and intellectual pursuit as essential to human dignity. Her letters and refusals show that demanding the right to think is always a political act, one that threatens hierarchies built on keeping people ignorant.

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