The (Self-) Exclusion of Women from the Roman Catholic Church in Poland: Discursive Practices as Mechanisms Reproducing Models of Femininity in Church Organizations

• Autorzy: Katarzyna Leszczyńska
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In this article I analyze discursive practices that serve to reproduce models of femininity and that are adopted by lay women employed in central Church organizations, including in diocesan chanceries and ecclesiastical courts. The key discursive practice is dissociation, which excludes women from various institutional orders of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, keeping them in their place in the hierarchy, and sanctioning non-normative gender models.
Drawing on integration theories of gender and new institutionalism in sociology, I depart in this article from individualist and identity views of gender. I consider this category as a social institution, that is, as the social rules, both formal and informal, that restrict and liberate human action and are reproduced and transformed in social practices as a result of human agency.
My article is based on 31 in-depth interviews which I conducted with lay women working in administrative and evangelizing organizations of the Church in Poland. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Gender; Church in society; Social exclusion

PL

Płeć; Kościół w społeczeństwie; Wykluczenie społeczne

• Czasopismo: Polish Sociological Review
• Rocznik: 2016
• Numer: nr 4 (196)
• Strony: 459--476

Twórcy

autor

Katarzyna Leszczyńska

• AGH University of Science and Technology Kraków, Poland

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