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It’s the same impulse that attracts women to single-sex communities or makes them pine, like Stella in Bernard MacLaverty’s brilliant Midwinter Break, for béguinages (the lay communities of single women that flourished in the Low Countries in the middle ages).
Tired of being a woman in 2025? Why not become a nun… | Emma Beddington Emma Beddington 2025
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