1st Edition
Women Priests, Symbolic Violence, and Symbolic Resistance
By Sharon Jagger
Copyright 2025
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores, from a feminist sociological viewpoint, the ways gender is constructed in the priesthood in the Church of England, and the political, emotional, and spiritual resources generated by women priests in their resistance praxis against a discriminating structure. Despite the increasing numbers of women being ordained, the Church continues to structurally support and legitimise the... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Bourdieu and Symbolic Violence; 3: Interviewing women clergy; 4: ‘Priestess feminist witches’: The othering of women clergy; 5: Radical Evil and the Somatic: How women’s bodies are framed in the priesthood; 6: Where has all the protest gone?; 7: The lovely man and symbolic violence: Relationships with clergy men who oppose women’s ordination; 8: Symbolic Violence Meets Symbolic Resistance; 9: Words and language; 10: Conclusion: Symbolic Resistance
Biography
Sharon Jagger is Associate Professor in Religion at York St. John University, UK.
