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.
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.
"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.
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.
"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.