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Essay created by Elena Poniatowska, published in Las siete cabritas (Ediciones Era, 2000), on Nahui Olin. In her creative and unique writing style, she describes significant aspects of their lives; their works, commissions, and contracts; and their travels and partners and includes comments by Olin and others in regard to her and in assessments about their lives and achievements.
English translation by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez, essays from Elena Poniatowska’s book Las siete cabritas, published in 2000.
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Born in 1900, Raoul Ignacio Fournier Villada studied medicine in Mexico City, then pursued advanced studies and medical practice in Paris between 1924 and 1926. In 1935 he married Carolina “Carito” Amor Schmidtlein. He was a humanist who interacted easily with and among intellectual and artistic circles. He specialized in gastroenterology and studied Chinese medicinal practices as well. Fournier founded and advanced many important health and medicine initiatives and institutions. Prominent artists declared he could also cure the soul.
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See Charles Baudelaire’s poetry; also Fleursdumal.org.
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Brahmanism earlier terminology for Hinduism, which had the Vedas, or vedic teachings, which includes discussions of sexual positions. A woman’s thighs are stated to be the most beautiful part of her body and should be kept wide open for receipt of lovemaking, just as the spirit is open to the divine.
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Poniatowska, E., Martínez, E.C. (2023). Nahui Olin, She Who Made Waves. In: Poniatowska, E., Martínez, E.C. (eds) The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11177-8_5
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