How institutional assignment of fixed social roles—particularly by gender, class, or caste—constitutes a violation of property in one's own labor and potential.
Sor Juana lived under systems that prescribed her identity and labor: as woman, she was denied formal education; as nun, she faced vows of obedience that attempted to control her intellectual work. Her resistance reveals that role prescription is not merely cultural inconvenience but structural theft of self-determination. In libertarian justice, prescribing that someone must labor in a particular station, marry a particular person, or abandon particular pursuits violates their ownership of their own time and faculties. Sor Juana's strategic use of the convent—accepting the role while secretly continuing her studies—shows how those constrained by role prescription must often employ cunning rather than direct freedom. This concept demands recognition that true property rights include ownership of one's own labor allocation and life trajectory, not merely external goods.
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