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The theme of religion and gender is addressed first by Ulrike Strasser in "Cloistering women's past" (221), a fascinating double analysis of a contemporary account written by a nun who experienced enclosure, and the subsequent historical interpretation of the cloistering of nuns in general: a study in selective social and political memory and its consequences. Researchers reasoned that such corridors, often called greenways, would allow wildlife and human populations to live intertwined without cloistering wild creatures into islands where they would eventually run out of resources and become dangerously inbred. |
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