  One of the earliest documented writers in the Latin American feminist tradition comes from the 17th century. Arguing in favor of the educational and intellectual rights of women, Juana Inés María del Carmen Martínez de Zaragoza Gaxiola de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana Odonojú (1651–1695), recognized by many as Juana Inés de la Cruz or Sor Juana of Mexico, was a self-educated scholar of the Baroque period whose writings have garnered quite a bit of philosophical attention as part of the Latin American philosophical canon. She was well known during her lifetime as evidenced by multiple publications of her work. However, by the second half of the 18th century, her fame diminished as attention to Baroque poetry declined. In 1951, her work recovered attention with the publication of her complete works (Gargallo 2009: 419).