Citations:nunhood

English citations of nunhood

Noun: "the status or condition of being a nun"

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• 1996 — Jo Ann Kay McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia, Harvard University Press (1996), →ISBN, pages 450-451:

  Despite this story of failure and loss, the honor of nunhood never gleamed more brightly than in those hours when their cloisters were broken and their habits stripped from them.

• 2000 — Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles, Vintage International (2001), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Nunhood, the convent and the vows were things that would speak to her for the rest of her life.

• 2001 — Edith Sarra, "Towazugatari: Unruly Tales from a Dutiful Daughter", in The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father (eds. Rebecca L. Copeland & Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen), University of Hawai'i Press (2001), →ISBN, page 95:

  Arguing against the received view of Nijō's nunhood as a willful, positive choice, Imazeki question's Nijō's freedom of choice at all, her view being that Nijo intentionally presented her nunhood as a long-sought-after alternative in order to put a better face on events that were in fact out of her control.

• 2004 — James C. Dobbins, Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan, University of Hawai'i Press (2004), →ISBN, page 84:

  Nunhood had profound social ramifications for medieval women.

• 2005 — Judith Arnold, The Fixer Upper, Mira (2005), →ISBN, page 337:

  "She's Jewish," Harry muttered. "Nunhood is out of the question."

• 2005 — Charlene E. Makley, "The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo", in Women in Tibet (eds. Janet Gyatso & Hanna Havnevik), Columbia University Press (2005), →ISBN, page 261:

  In fact, the contestations articulated in gossip about nuns were inseparable from those transpiring everyday in the bodily performance of nunhood.

• 2006 — Karen Cushman, The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Clarion Books (2006), →ISBN, page 108:

  They visited eighth-grade classes all over Los Angeles every year to share with us the joys of nunhood, joys so great we would want to be like them — living together all their lives, never getting married or having babies, singing and praying and working in eternal poverty, chastity, and obedience.

• 2009 — Sonja Livingston, Ghostbread, University of Georgia Press (2009), →ISBN, page 219:

  I considered nunhood. But while social activism had its appeal, I knew I was not cut out for such selflessness, at least not willingly.

• 2009 — Mary Whitney Kelting, Heroic Wives: Rituals, Stories, and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood, Oxford University Press (2009), →ISBN, page 155:

  To illustrate my point, this discussion will now turn to contexts in which young unmarried Jain women embody ideologies of renunciation as an exploration of the possibility of nunhood.

• 2011 — Melissa Darnell, Crave, Harlequin Teen (2011), →ISBN, page 218:

  Since no one had locked me up yet, the next best thing I could do was aim for nunhood.

Noun: "nuns as a group"

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• 1983 — Michael Malone, Handling Sin, Sourcebooks, Inc. (2004), →ISBN, page 186:

  "It's like in The Nun's Story. When Audrey Hepburn was getting initiated, she couldn't even talk to her best friend and she had to lie on a stone floor all night. Finally, she just got married instead, or became a scientist, I forget which. I guess getting into the nunhood is about as hard as pro football."

• 2002 — Lucinda Joy Peach, Women and World Religions, Prentice Hall (2002), →ISBN, page 91:

  Many young nuns said they entered the nunhood because their parents could not afford to send them to pursue higher education.

• 2004 — Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men, Broadway Books (2004), →ISBN, page 121:

  Once I had that, I'd join the nunhood, some nice order that still wore habits and didn't require dating.

• 2005 — William E. Deal, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Oxford University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 43:

  She entered the nunhood after her husband's death and became a well-respected tutor of high-ranking noblemen and noblewomen.

• 2007 — Monica Lindberg Falk, Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand, NIAS Press (2007), →ISBN, page 242:

  She had a diploma in business studies from Australia and before she entered the nunhood had worked as a secretary and translator.

• 2011 — Louise Tythacott, The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism, and Display, Berghahn Books (2011), →ISBN, page 24:

  When she asked her father's permission to be ordained into the nunhood, he flew into a rage, ordering her to kill herself with a sword.