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Headscarves, Modern Orthodoxy, and Telling Women What to Do
Orthodoxy and Modernity, Women in the Church

Headscarves, Modern Orthodoxy, and Telling Women What to Do

Dr. Katherine Kelaidis recently published a piece in this forum on ‘Headscarves, Modesty, and Modern Orthodoxy.’ The article, a loving homage to Kelaidis’s grandmother, aunts, and mother, describes the pressures faced by Greek immigrant women of the American Mountain West two generations ago, by contemporary Muslim women, and by Orthodox women under Ottoman rule. Acknowledging…

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