Mexican poet, dramatist, scholar, and Roman Catholic nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz used Baroque style to promote empiricism, Neoplatonism, and Scholasticism. She also expressed feminist views in her writing, portraying woman as the seat of reason and knowledge over passion and argued for greater opportunities for the education of women.
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