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4000 Years of Women in Science http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/CRUZ.html

Arenal, Electa, and Amanda Powell. "A Life Without and Within: Juana Ramirez/Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-1695)." Women's Studies 1-2 (1993): 67-80.

Arenal, Electa, and Amanda Powell. The Answer/ La Respuesta. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994.

Arenal, Electa, and Stacey Schlau. Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1989.

Arenal, Electa. "The Convent as Catalyst for Autonomy: Two Hispanic Nuns of the Seventeenth Century." Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols. Ed. Beth Miller. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983. 147-83.

Bach, Caleb. "Maria Luis Bemberg Tells the Untold." Americas 46 (Mar/Apr 1994): 20.

Bergmann, Emilie. "Abjection and Ambiguity: Lesbian Desire in Bemberg's "Yo, la peor de todas." Hispanisms and Homosexualities. Ed. Sylvia Molloy and Robert McKee Irwin. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

Burton-Carvajal, Julianne. "Introduction: Changing Gender Perspectives in Latin American Film." Journal of Film and Video 44. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1992-93): 3.

Butler, Robert. "I, the Worst of All: A True Story in More than One Sense." The Kansas City Star 19 January 1996: 9.

Carson, Diane, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, eds. Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994.

Cook, Samantha (updated by Rob Edelman). "Maria Luisa Bemberg." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Be-Bu/Bemberg-Maria-Luisa.html

The Courage to Write. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Madison: Wisconsin Public Radio, 1997.

de la Cruz, Juana Ines. "Hombres Necios." A Sor Juana Anthology. Ed.Alan S. Trueblood. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.

Doane, Mary Ann. "Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator." Issues in Feminist Film Criticism. Ed. Patricia Erens. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990. 41-58.

Erens, Patricia, ed. Issues in Feminist Film Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.

Esquibel, Catriona Rueda. “Sor Juana and the Search for (Queer) and Cultural Heroes.” With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians. Austin: U of Texas P, 2006. 66-90.

Flynn, Gerard. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. New York: Twayne Publishers: 1971.

Franco, Jean. Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.

Glaessner, Verina. Yo, la peor de toda (I, the Worst of All). Sight and Sound 1.7 (1991): 56.

Gordon, Richard A. “Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Retooling of a National Icon in Ave Maria (1999).” Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2009. 109-39.

Guthmann, Edward. "Stilted Feminist Stirrings in a Mexican Convent." San Francisco Chronicle 12 January 1996.

Hart, Stephen M. “Yo, la peor de todas (I, The Worst of All, 1990), Directed by Maria Luisa Bermberg." A Companion to Latin American Film. New York: Tamesis, 2004. 138-44.

Hartl, John. "Bemberg at Her Finest." IMDb-External Reviews. 21 February 2000. http://www.film.com/film-review/1990/8842/109/default-review.html.

Heroes of Mexico. New York: Fleet Press Corp., 1973.

Higginbotham, Virginia. "Fast Frames: Insights into Mexican, Latin American, and Brazilian Cinema." Latin American Research Review 40.3 (2005): 273-82.

Hispanic Stories: Steck-Vaughn Classroom Library. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1993.

Holden, Stephen. "A Free-Spirited Nun's Poetry Shows Seeds of Her Undoing." The New York Times 22 September 1995: 10.

King, John. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. London & New York: Verso, 1990.

Kirk, Pamela. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Religion, Art, and Feminism. New York: Continuum, 1999.

Latin America, Spain, and Portugal: Internet Resources http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/latamer/internet.htm

Latin American Film Page http://www.igc.org/jhess/LACHOME.html [Archived]

Lavrin, Assuncion, ed. Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives. Westport: Greenwood P., 1978.

Lavrin, Assuncion. "Unlike Sor Juana? The Model Nun in the Religious Literature of Colonial Mexico." University of Dayton Review 16. 2 (Spring 1983): 75.

Leonard, Irving A. Baroque Times in Old Mexico. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1959.

Merrim, Stephanie, ed. Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991.

Merrim, Stephanie. Early Modern Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 1999.

Mexico en la obra de Octavio Paz. Dir. Hector Tajonar. Video Visa: 1992.

Mexico's Colonial Times. Producer George H. Russel Huntsville: Educational Video Network, 1992.

Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Issues in Feminist Film Criticism. Ed. Patricia Erens. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990. 28-41.

Paz, Octavio. Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith. Cambridge: The Bellknap Press of Harvard UP, 1988.

Pick, Zuzana M. "An Interview with Maria Luisa Bemberg." Journal of Film and Video 44. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1992-93): 76.

Picon-Salas, Mariano. A Cultural History of Spanish America, from Conquest to Independence. Translation Irving A. Leonard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1962.

Powell, Kevin. "Confessions of a Recovering Misogynist." Ms. X.3 (2000): 72.

Ramirez, Susan E. "I, the Worst of All: The Literary Life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz." Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Ed. Donald F. Stevens. Wilmington: SR Books, 1997. 47-62.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Royer, Fauchon. The Tenth Muse: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Paterson: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1952.

Sayers-Peden, Margaret, translator and ed. Poems, Protest, and A Dream: Selected Writings, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Schons, Dorothy. "The First Feminist in the New World." Equal Rights October 31 1925.

Seed, Patricia. To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1988.

Shaw, Deborah. “Representing Inequalities: The Voyage by Fernando Solanas and I, the Worst of All by Maria Luisa Bemberg.” Contemporary Cinema of Latin America: Ten Key Films. New York: Continuum, 2003. 105-41.

Shulgasser, Barbara. "From Peasant to Poet: I, the Worst of All." San Francisco Examiner 12 January 1996.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz http://www.w3.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp10/grp10.htm [Archived]

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz http://www.sappho.com/poetry/j_ines.html

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) sonnetos y villancicas. Forest Hills: 1986.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Juana Ramirez de Asbaje) http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/culture/SorJuana/

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz enter el cielo y la razon. Epica Video & Music, 1998.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Boulder: David Barsamian (producer), 1985.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1995.

Sor Juana Lives! http://members.cruzio.com/~sbear/sorjuana'slife.html [Archived]

Stavans, Ilan. "Introduction." Margaret Sayers-Peden, translator and ed. Poems, Protest, and A Dream: Selected Writings, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Tavard, George H . Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1991.

Thomas, Kevin. "Worst of All Bristles with Irony, Ambiguity." Los Angeles Times 24 November 1995: 6.

Trueblood, Alan S., ed. A Sor Juana Anthology. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.

Turner, Graeme. Film as Social Practice. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Williams, Bruce. "The Reflection of a Blind Gaze: Maria Luisa Bemberg, Filmmaker." A Woman's Gaze: Latin American Women Artists. Ed. Marjorie Agosin. New York; White Pine Press, 1998. 171-90.