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Queer Yiddishkeit challenges the notion that Yiddish is inherently heteronormative or conservative.

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The lives and roles of African-descended women who joined predominantly white Catholic convents was deliberately hidden by congregational historians.

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The long, little-known history of Muslim women in communal religious life.

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