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Packet G: Bonus 8

This author’s posthumous play The Eternal Feminine imagines a conversation between notable women in Mexican history, including Sor Juana. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this pioneering feminist author of Ciudad Real and The Book of Lamentations, who described how sometimes your “measuring stick breaks” and “your compass goes missing” in her confessional poem “Valium 10.”
ANSWER: Rosario Castellanos
[10e] This other Mexican author wrote about the challenges faced by Sor Juana in The Traps of Faith. This author discussed Mexicans as the sons of “La Malinche” in his essay collection The Labyrinth of Solitude.
ANSWER: Octavio Paz
[10m] Sor Juana’s defense of women’s education, Reply to Sister Philotea, mentions the pioneering role of Teresa of Avila but fails to mention this author, who used famous women as the “building blocks” for her “city of ladies.”
ANSWER: Christine de Pizan [accept Christina da Pizzano]
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