What do we know women but cooking philosophies? Sor Juana, between the profane and the sacred

Abstract

Situated between the profane and the sacred, the life and work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz has been widely studied and disseminated in Mexico and throughout the world, although her philosophical and theological ideas, drawn in the Carta Atenagórica (Athenagoric Letter) and the Response to Sor Philothea de la Cruz, are perhaps the ones that have less drawn the attention of scholars and academics, and even the laywomen and laymen and, maybe because for that very reason, by its degree of complexity and erudition, faithful reflex of the greatness, timeliness and effectiveness of the heterodox vocation of this embattled and prodigious Jerome Nun of the seventeenth century, and its untamed and independent spirit, as well as her thirst and hunger for freedom and of gender equality.
To make affordable and accessible the unspeakable and unthinkable to the majority, say the agency, authorship and performance of Sor Juana in a world dominated by gender bias and the prevalence of authority and patriarchal power, both formerly as now, when the claim of human rights, freedom of expression and the rights of women, among others, acquire inescapable everyday character in our country, the figure of Juana de Asbaje transgresses and transcends the passive role that was imposed to her, to perpetuate her voice, ideas, letters and actions, and to answer that stale question: What do we know women but cooking philosophies?, purpose of this contribution.