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Sor Juana as proto-feminist

Sor Juana's life—rejecting marriage, entering a convent to preserve autonomy, publishing her work, defending women's capacity to reason—prefigures modern feminist arguments by centuries, showing that feminist consciousness is not new but has been systematically erased. Reading her as proto-feminist reveals that women have always resisted their subordination; institutional power simply obscured it.

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