Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. Stephanie Merrim's study provides a full-bodied picture of the resources that the seventeenth century placed at the disposal of women writers, the manners in which women writers instrumentalized them, the building blocks and concerns of early modern women's writing, and the continuities between early modern and modern women's writing.