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McGuinness Margaret M. Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America (New York University Press, 2013) 266 pages;
McNamara, Jo Ann Kay. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia (1998)excerpt and text search
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Roberts, Rebecca. "Le Catholicisme au féminin: Thirty Years of Women's History," Historical Reflections (2013) 39#1 pp. 82–100, on France, especially research on Catholic nuns by Claude Langlois
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