Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A 17th-century nun, philosopher, and poet who became the finest writer of the Spanish Baroque period in the Americas and one of the first advocates for women's rights to education in the Western Hemisphere, Sor Juana appears on the 200-peso bill and is the subject of Mexico's most extensive biographical cinema, theatre, and literary tradition. Her response to a bishop who criticized her intellectual pursuits — La Respuesta — is the first feminist text written in the Americas.