Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural
and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine,
spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing.
Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and
alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author
Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor Juana used her poetry and other
works to inscribe herself within the discourses associated with
these cultural institutions and discursive spheres and thus
challenge the male exclusivity of their precepts and precincts.
Kirk illustrates how Sor Juana subverted the masculine character of
erudition, writing herself into an all-male community of scholars.
From there, Sor Juana clearly questions the gender politics at play
in her exclusion, and undermines what seems to be the inextricable
link previously forged between masculinity and institutional
knowledge. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of
Knowledge in Colonial Mexico opens up new readings of her texts
through the lens of cultural and intellectual history and material
culture in order to shed light on the production of knowledge in
the seventeenth-century colonial Mexican society of which she was
both a product and an anomaly.
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